From the PHP.net article on date()
which is similar to gmdate()
, except that the time is returned in GMT:
Since this function only accepts integer timestamps the u format character is only useful when using the date_format() function with user based timestamps created with date_create().
Use something like this instead:
list($usec, $sec) = explode(' ', microtime()); //split the microtime on space
//with two tokens $usec and $sec
$usec = str_replace("0.", ".", $usec); //remove the leading '0.' from usec
print date('H:i:s', $sec) . $usec; //appends the decimal portion of seconds
Which prints: 00:00:03.1745569706
If you want you can use round()
to round the $usec
var even more.
If you use microtime(true)
use this instead:
list($sec, $usec) = explode('.', microtime(true)); //split the microtime on .