Test: date vs. strftime

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Result: Discarded

The test labeled "date()" was the faster by 0.0066 seconds, (1.028% faster)

date() 100%

strftime() 98.972%

The date() test took 0.6348 seconds.
The strftime() test took 0.6414 seconds.

Nitty-Gritty

Each test case ran 20 random code order iterations consisting of 171,739 loops for a total of 3,434,780 runs.

Line execution difference (0.000002) milliseconds.
Avg difference (0.330) milliseconds per 171,739 loops.
Total difference 6.59 milliseconds for 3,434,780 loops

The iteration variablity for Code 1 was (1.0934) milliseconds and Code 2 was (0.7608) milliseconds. The lower and the closer together there values are the more accurate the results are.

Code

The first test, "date()", was:

for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy'] = date('Y-m-d \\a\\t H:i:s', $GLOBALS['t']);

The second test, "strftime()", was:

for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++)
	$GLOBALS['dummy'] = strftime('%Y-%m-%d at %H:%M:%S', $GLOBALS['t']);

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