How to get the current time in Y-m-d H:i:s.Millisecond format in PHP

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if I use date('Y-m-d H:i:s.u') the output will be some thing like 2015-11-03 13:25:25.253000. But i need 2015-11-03 13:25:25.253 how I can do it?

[So you can't find a PHP function that will cut the last three characters from a string?](http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php) — Mark Baker, Nov 03 '15 at 08:34
You don't get `2015-11-03 13:25:25.253000`. You get `2015-11-03 13:25:25.000000` — Daniel Alder, Nov 03 '15 at 08:37

link1tmk · Answer 1 · 2015-11-03T08:49:13.043

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Try this date('Y-m-d H:i:s'.substr((string)microtime(), 1, 4))

or what Daniel suggests in the comment down below.

edited Nov 03 '15 at 08:49

answered Nov 03 '15 at 08:36

link1tmk

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Just for good style: you shouldn't include variable content in the format string. use `date('Y-m-d H:i:s').substr((string)microtime(), 1, 4)` instead - maybe there is once an optimizer which compiles/caches the format in advance. this will fail with variable strings – Daniel Alder Nov 03 '15 at 08:38
Also, Daniel's method is way faster. – Nov 03 '15 at 08:58

How to get the current time in Y-m-d H:i:s.Millisecond format in PHP

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