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

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80683&edit=1 ID: 80683 Updated by: requinix@php.net Reported by: php4fan at gmail dot com Summary: Untrue statement about microtime() precision -Status: Closed +Status: Not a bug Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem Operating System: linux PHP Version: Irrelevant Assigned To: danack Block user comment: N Private report: N Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-01-28 19:10:37] danack@php.net Yeah, not only is it not true, it's not a useful bug report anyway. If you think something in the manual needs improving, please submit some better words at https://github.com/php/doc-en . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2021-01-28 19:08:39] php4fan at gmail dot com Whops, sorry, not true, I was just printing it and it got rounded when converted to string. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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