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()).

See also

http://php.net/manual/reserved.variables.server.php

http://php.net/manual/function.time.php

File

core/includes/bootstrap.inc, line 235
Functions that need to be loaded on every Backdrop request.

Code

define('REQUEST_TIME', (int) $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'])