Can I “Mock” time in PHPUnit?

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I recently came up with another solution that is great if you are using PHP 5.3 namespaces. You can implement a new time() function inside your current namespace and create a shared resource where you set the return value in your tests. Then any unqualified call to time() will use your new function.

For further reading I described it in detail in my blog

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