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6 hours ago, Barand said:

Have you considered RTFM?

I have, and it was a genuine question. I guess I've just been lucky enough to have never come across a situation where the distinction has bitten me in the butt or where I've noticed, in all honesty.

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Well, this would be one of those times.  You can't do simple math like $now - $last with the value returned by microtime().  You need to use microtime(true) for that.

For example:

<?php 

$last = microtime();
sleep(5);
$now = microtime();

$diff = $now - $last;
printf("%0.4f seconds have passed", $diff);

One might expect since the script sleeps for 5 seconds to get a result like 5.xxxx seconds have passed but what you actually get is:

Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered in W:\expired.php on line 7

Call Stack:
    0.0002     391984   1. {main}() W:\expired.php:0


Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered in W:\expired.php on line 7

Call Stack:
    0.0002     391984   1. {main}() W:\expired.php:0

0.0044 seconds have passed

Due to how microtime returns it's result $diff would never be greater than 1, and could potentially be negative.

 

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14 hours ago, kicken said:

Well, this would be one of those times.  You can't do simple math like $now - $last with the value returned by microtime().  You need to use microtime(true) for that.

I never understood the use for the default microtime() and even less understood why it is the default, and always pass the true argument to it.

$timeFloat = microtime(true);
$timeString = microtime();
var_dump($timeFloat);
var_dump($timeString);

$p=explode(' ', $timeString);
var_dump($p[1]+$p[0]);
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float(1606594262.3616)
string(21) "0.36156100 1606594262"
float(1606594262.3616)

 

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