Doc #80683 [Opn->Csd]: Untrue statement about microtime() precision

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80683&edit=1 ID: 80683 User updated by: php4fan at gmail dot com Reported by: php4fan at gmail dot com Summary: Untrue statement about microtime() precision -Status: Open +Status: Closed Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem Operating System: linux PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Whops, sorry, not true, I was just printing it and it got rounded when converted to string. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-01-28 19:03:51] php4fan at gmail dot com Description: ------------ --- From manual page: https://php.net/function.microtime --- It states: "If as_float is set to true, then microtime() returns a float, which represents the current time in seconds since the Unix epoch accurate to the nearest microsecond." That's not true. The value returned as float is not accurate to the nearest microsecond. Now I guess that's obvious if you know what the precision of a float is, but if I read a sentence that says "accurate to the nearest microsecond", I'm not going to do maths, I'll assume that who wrote the sentence already did that for me, so if they say "accurate to the nearest microsecond" I'll assume they figured out that the typical precision of a float is enough to give you a 1-microsecond precision on such a number. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80683&edit=1