note 27351 added to function.date

Does anybody know how to create a timestamp of the current date+time that one can actually insert as the second argument into the date() function? I've tried all these 4 and the don't work: $t1 = date("U"); $t2 = time(); $t3 = date("YmdHis"); $t4 = date("Y-m-d H:i:s"); $current_date1 = date("Y-m-d", t1); $current_date2 = date("Y-m-d", t2); $current_date3 = date("Y-m-d", t3); $current_date4 = date("Y-m-d", t4); echo "current_date1=$current_date1, current_date2=$current_date2, "; echo "current_date3=$current_date3, current_date4=$current_date4, "; // will output: current_date1=1969-12-31, current_date2=1969-12-31, // current_date3=1969-12-31, current_date4=1969-12-31, -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+27351 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+27351 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+27351