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Is current Unix epoch in PHP UTC?

Is current Unix epoch in PHP UTC? Or it is the local time?

Solution

  • Generally, the Unix epoch is in UTC regardless of programming language.

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time:

    The Unix epoch is the time 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 (or 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z ISO 8601).