Posted by Andy Hassall on 05/24/05 02:01

On 23 May 2005 15:50:15 -0700, lkrubner@geocities.com wrote:

>I just noticed this when I was catching up on old posts:
>
>
>>Senator Jay Billington Bulworth Feb 3, 6:09 am
>>function getmicrotime(){
>> list($usec, $sec) = explode(' ', microtime());
>> return ((float)$usec + (float)$sec);
>>}
>
>$sec should be a Unix timestamp, which is an integer. What is the point
>of casting it to a float?

Read: http://uk2.php.net/microtime

And observe:

$ echo '<?php print microtime() ?>' | ./php -q
0.24315700 1116889261

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