Convert microtime to seconds php

I have the store start time as microtime() and end time as microtime() into database.

Now I want to calculate how long the script takes the seconds/minutes/hours to execute.

How can I do in PHP?

asked Jun 24, 2011 at 12:59

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basically, like this:

echo date("H:i:s",$endtime-$starttime);

$endtime-$starttime gives the duration in seconds, date is used to format the output. sounds like saving to and reading from a database isn't your problem here, so i left that out in my example. Note that you'll have to use microtime(true) to get this working, with the space-separated output of microtime() your can't do calculations that easy.

EDIT: you could do all the calculation on your own, too. it's just basic math like this:

$duration = $endtime-$starttime;
$hours = (int)($duration/60/60);
$minutes = (int)($duration/60)-$hours*60;
$seconds = (int)$duration-$hours*60*60-$minutes*60;

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answered Jun 24, 2011 at 13:03

oezioezi

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microtime to seconds or hours or min conversion?

microtime is the name of the php function that return a measure of time in microseconds and basically microseconds can be converted to:

    1 milliseconds = 1,000 microseconds
    1 second       = 1,000,000 microseconds
    1 minute       = 60,000,000 microseconds
    1 hour         = 3,600,000,000 microseconds


    or


    1 microsecond = 0.001 milliseconds
    1 microsecond = 0.000001 seconds
    1 microsecond = 0.0000000166666667 minutes
    1 microsecond = 0.000000000277777778 hours

answered Sep 6, 2013 at 12:33

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function formatPeriod($endtime, $starttime)
{

  $duration = $endtime - $starttime;

  $hours = (int) ($duration / 60 / 60);

  $minutes = (int) ($duration / 60) - $hours * 60;

  $seconds = (int) $duration - $hours * 60 * 60 - $minutes * 60;

  return ($hours == 0 ? "00":$hours) . ":" . ($minutes == 0 ? "00":($minutes < 10? "0".$minutes:$minutes)) . ":" . ($seconds == 0 ? "00":($seconds < 10? "0".$seconds:$seconds));
}

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answered Dec 14, 2015 at 9:54

ahmed redaahmed reda

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If you have a time A and a time B, in seconds, then the number of seconds between those two absolute times is:

B - A

If you want to format this number of seconds, you can use date to prettify it.

answered Jun 24, 2011 at 13:04

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Definition and Usage

The microtime() function returns the current Unix timestamp with microseconds. By default, this function returns a string value which contains microseconds and seconds separated by space (msec sec).

Syntax

microtime($get_as_float)

Parameters

Return Values

PHP microtime() function returns the current Unix timestamp. By default this returns a string value in the form msec sec. If you pass the boolean value true as a parameter to this method, it returns the current time in seconds since the Unix epoch accurate to the nearest microsecond.

PHP Version

This function was first introduced in PHP Version 4 and, works with all the later versions.

Example

Following example demonstrates the usage of the microtime() function −

Live Demo

This will produce following result −

0.60664200 1589305212

Example

Lets try to set the get_as_float value to true −

Live Demo

This will produce following result −

1589298812.5101

Example

Live Demo

This produces the following result −

Did nothing in 0.0018141269683838 seconds

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