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can someone please tell me how to echo the current time or date?  I have the date in the format

 

1306768978

 

in the database but I dont want to echo it back that way obviously.  Not only that but does anybody know of a good tutorial on how to use this function?

 

 

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You don't need strtotime when the date/time is in that format, which is the number of seconds since 1970-01-01, just use the date function:

<?php
$date = 1306768978;
echo date('Y-m-d',$date) . "<br>\n"; // yyyy-mm-dd
echo date(l, F j, Y, $date) . "<br>\n"; // weekday, Month day, yyyy
?>

 

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