How to get UTC timestamp in php

Question

how to get UTC timestamp in php.. The below doesn't returns UTC timestamp, it is displaying some other timestamp

 <?php
    date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
    echo strtotime("now");

    ?>

i think, setting default timezone as not been effective?

Hi, please always remember to Google first. `How to get UTC timestamp in php` takes you to [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/8655551/187606) — Pekka, Sep 15 '13 at 03:48

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 15 '13 at 03:44

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Try this.

<?php

 print gmdate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z"); 

?>

answered Sep 15 '13 at 03:44

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It would return a formatted date, not a timestamp – zerkms Sep 15 '13 at 03:49
5 minutes more, to accept your answer.. – thuk Sep 15 '13 at 03:51
@thuk: you asked about timestamp and about to accept an answer about formatted date. That's weird – zerkms Sep 15 '13 at 03:53
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@zerkms the timestamp return on this format is in UTC , that is what i want – thuk Sep 17 '13 at 05:06
@thuk: timestamp doesn't represent any timezone - it's just a number of seconds since unix epoch. And the whole phrase - "the timestamp return on this format is in UTC" - doesn't make much sense. `gmdate` is a string with formatted date, it has nothing to do with timestamp. – zerkms Sep 17 '13 at 06:15

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