How to get seconds elapsed since midnight

Question

Using PHP how do you get the number of seconds elapsed since midnight of the current day?

All i've tried right now is:

$hour=substr(date("h:i:s"),0,2); $minute=substr(date("h:i:s"),3,2); echo $hour."\r\n"; echo $minute."\r\n"; 

...but it doesn't return the correct server time of the response and I don't know how to do that.

Answer 1

This should work.

echo time() - strtotime("today"); 

This will only show your servers timezone though.