Getting unix timestamp in milliseconds in PHP5 and Actionscript3

Question

In Actionscript, the Unix timestamp in milliseconds is obtainable like this:

public static function getTimeStamp():uint
        {
            var now:Date =          


        

Answer 1

I recently had this problem to get a timestamp in milliseconds. To just multiply the unix timestamp by 1000 did not resolve the problem because i had to compare two database entrys very precicely. Aparently the php datetime object can´t handle milliseconds/microseconds but its stored in the datetime string anyway. So here is my solution:

$dateObject = new \DateTime('2015-05-05 12:45:15.444', new \DateTimeZone('Europe/London')); $millis = $dateObject->format('v'); echo $dateObject->getTimestamp()*1000+$millis;

This should also work with microseconds if you use format->('u') (and of course multiply the timestamp by 1000000) instead. I hope you find this useful.