PHP profiling with microtime(): Negative time?

If you want to do operations on what is returned by microtime, you have to set the “get as float” parameter to true (it defaults to false).

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.microtime.php

$now = microtime(true);
for (...) {
    // do something
    echo microtime(true) - $now;
    $now = microtime(true);
}