Current Time in DateTime PHP

Question

Is this the correct way to get the current time in PHP using DateTime?

$currenttime = new DateTime();
$currenttime2 = $currenttime->format('H:i:s');

Answer 1

This will set the time based on your date time settings in php.ini. Do a var_dump of $currenttime after creation to see what I mean. You may also use microtime(true); to obtain a unix timestamp, which can be converted using other functions.

Answer 2

I believe you can do it like this

$date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');