How to display the current date in ms since epoch in PHP?

I would like to display today's date as the number of ms since epoch

I know that I can use

microtime(true) / 1000

to so so, but I would like to strip the hour, minutes, ms from this result. I would like to get 2016/01/28 00:00:00 in ms. Of course this is an example, as I want the date to be the current day. Any idea on how to do so in PHP ?

Solution

How about simply

echo sprintf('%d',strtotime('midnight'));



$midnight_lastnight=strtotime('midnight - 24hours');
$midnight_tonight=strtotime('midnight');
$midnight_tomorrow=strtotime('midnight + 24hours');

echo '<pre>';
echo $midnight_lastnight.' '.date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', $midnight_lastnight );
echo $midnight_tonight.' '.date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', $midnight_tonight );
echo $midnight_tomorrow.' '.date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s', $midnight_tomorrow );
echo '</pre>';

outputs:
--------
1453852800 2016-01-27 00:00:00
1453939200 2016-01-28 00:00:00
1454025600 2016-01-29 00:00:00