 <p>Well, conversion from seconds to microseconds shouldn't be too difficult;</p> <pre><code>echo time() * 1000; </code></pre> <p>If you need the time stamp to be <strong>acurate</strong> in milliseconds, look at <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.microtime.php" rel="nofollow"><code>microtime()</code></a> however, this function does <em>not</em> return an integer so you'll have to do some conversions</p> <p>Don't know how to convert that to a readable time in Android</p>