Can I “Mock” time in PHPUnit?

Question

... not knowing if \'mock\' is the right word.

Anyway, I have an inherited code-base that I\'m trying to write some tests for that are time-based. Trying not to be <

Answer 1

For those of you working with symfony (>= 2.8): Symfony's PHPUnit Bridge includes a ClockMock feature that overrides the built-in methods time, microtime, sleep and usleep.

See: http://symfony.com/doc/2.8/components/phpunit_bridge.html#clock-mocking