TIMENOW in plugins?

[johnmont]

I don't seem to be able to use TIMENOW in plugins. When I assign it to a variable, I end up getting nothing. As in:

echo TIMENOW;

$mytime = TIMENOW;
echo $mytime;

has no output.

I must be doing something wrong, because I've seen plugins here where this is used....At least I think I have....