Re: gethostbyname() time issues

Philip Hallstrom wrote:

$diff = number_format(((substr($timeend,0,9)) + (substr($timeend,-10)) - (substr($timestart,0,9)) - (substr($timestart,-10))),4);

This just looks wrong to me... at the very least shouldn't it be: (x + x) - (x + x)

(x + y) - (w + z) = (x + y) + (-w - z) = x + y - w - z Which is what I have. If you look closely, I don't have (x + x) - (x - x), which yes, would be wrong.

You've currently got the last + as a -. Also, why not split the result of microtime on a space in case $usec is more than 9 digits....?

$usec is microseconds. I'm not really concerned about more than ten-thousandths of a second, so I don't even really need 9 digits. Conversly, I only need the seconds digits that are changing, and I can guarantee (hopefully) that my script is not taking so long that I need more than 10 digits to calculate the difference in seconds. It may be ridiculously convoluted code, I'll grant you that ;) - I took it from old script somewhere and didn't think of the looking in the manual for the much simpler example - but I'm pretty sure the math is fine. Anyways, I can assure you that it is too fast for me to count 1, 2, 3 CLI, but I get up to 20-something waiting for it to run under apache. Any ideas? kgt