Same name and namespace in other branches
- 7.x includes/bootstrap.inc \REQUEST_TIME
- 8.9.x core/includes/bootstrap.inc \REQUEST_TIME
- 9 core/includes/bootstrap.inc \REQUEST_TIME
Time of the current request in seconds elapsed since the Unix Epoch.
This differs from $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'], which is stored as a float since PHP 5.4.0. Float timestamps confuse most PHP functions (including date_create()).
Deprecated
in drupal:8.3.0 and is removed from drupal:11.0.0. Use \Drupal::time()->getRequestTime();
See also
http://php.net/manual/reserved.variables.server.php
http://php.net/manual/function.time.php
https://www.drupal.org/node/2785211
File
- core/
includes/ bootstrap.inc, line 56 - Functions that need to be loaded on every Drupal request.
Code
define('REQUEST_TIME', (int) $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME']);