Question

I have noticed that regardless of a given script’s execution time, every date() call will return the same timestamp regardless of where the function is called within the script. It looks like it just returns the time at which the script first started executing.

For logging purposes, it would be extremely useful to be able to get incremental timestamps from within a script. Is this possible? Is there a way to do this that is relatively lightweight?

Edit: Would the example for the microtime() function suggests it might do this. Can anyone confirm?

Update: microtime() does work, but I cannot format it with the date() function because date() only accepts timestamps as integers (so no microseconds). How can I get a properly formatted date from the value returned by microtime() ?

Answer 1

http://us.php.net/microtime gives me different times within the same script.