Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 03/24/06 15:19

Noozer wrote:
> I've got a PHP question (it's my first PHP script)... Hopefully there's a
> quick answer.
>
> Why does the following show a 17 hour difference when the "Some Stuff" code
> actually takes only 42 seconds?
>
> For output I get:
> Elapsed time was 17:00.42.
>
>
> <?php
>
> $start_time = mktime();
>
> //42 seconds of some stuff happening here
>
> $finish_time = mktime();
>
> echo "Elapsed time was ".(date("G:i.s",$finish_time-$start_time)).".";
>
> ?>

Resolution, you are using the wrong function

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.microtime.php
microtime()

vs

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php
mktime()

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Take care,

Jonathan
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