How to create human readable time stamp?

Question

In my PHP program, I'm using $_SERVER to log the page's date visited:

$dateStamp = $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'];

The result is that the $dateStamp variable contains a Unix timestamp like:

1385615749

What's the simplest way to convert it into a human-readable date/time (with year, month, day, hour, minutes, seconds)?

Answer 1

This number is called Unix time. Functions like date() can accept it as the optional second parameter to format it in readable time.

Example:

echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME']);

If you omit the second parameter the current value of time() will be used.

echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s');