Enrolment

In [moodlepath]/enrol/flatfile.php

I can see the following 'if' statement that appears to enter the epoch date using the php function 'time();':

if ($timestart > time() and $buffer_if_future) {
            // Populate into enrol_flatfile table as a future role to be assigned by cron.
            // Note: since 2.0 future enrolments do not cause problems if you disable guest access.
            $future_en = new stdClass();
            $future_en->action       = $action;
            $future_en->roleid       = $roleid;
            $future_en->userid       = $user->id;
            $future_en->courseid     = $course->id;
            $future_en->timestart    = $timestart;
            $future_en->timeend      = $timeend;
            $future_en->timemodified = time();
            $DB->insert_record('enrol_flatfile', $future_en);
            $trace->output("User $user->id will be enrolled later into course $course->id using role $roleid ($timestart, $timeend)", 1);
            return;
        }

If I hear nothing back, my next steps will be trying to set time(); as a variable ($timestart) and re-run the flat file.

(I have tested from my server cli that time(); does return an accurate result.)