Problems with Unix timestamp

Hey folks, simple question for you.. I'm trying to search through a page (with fopen) for a Unix timestamp (on Windows). Simply doing while(!feof($fd)) { $line = fgets($fd, 4096); if(eregi(time(), $line) ...

will not work.    Upon further investigation, I could not get  die(time())  to work, nor  $now=getdate() die($now[0]);

Any ideas?? This works on Linux Having said that, I tried the following work-around: $now = explode(" ", microtime()); $search = substr($now[1], 0, 7); microtime returns the correct time, however it's still not working quite right. It would be a lot simpler if time() actually returned something for me :) Thanks in advance, ~Steve