Windows date("Y/m/d H:i:s") performance

I was profiling some code on my local dev box, and in Windows, the biggest time sink for the home page is... a call to date("Y/m/d H:i:s")?! 917 ms??? Here is what I get in a cygwin shell: php -r '$c = 100; $s = microtime(true); for($i = 0; $i < $c; $i++){ $d = date("Y/m/d H:i:s"); } echo (microtime(true) - $s)/$c, "\n"; ' 1.0072922205925 Same results from a DOS prompt, though I have to actually create a file as -r didn't seem to work... Feel free to change $c to 10 to get a faster answer... Can 'date' really take almost a full second to execute in Doze?... That seems pretty whack... -- Some people ask for gifts here. I just want you to buy an Indie CD for yourself: http://cdbaby.com/search/from/lynch