You should take into account, if you use the function replacement down here, the CPU will be in use of 99% for the time of execution...(A little bit better in this situation is to let the 'full seconds' go by a normal sleep command (makes the thread sleep!, and uses minimum cpu))<?php //THIS IS THE FUNCTION WE ARE TALKIN ABOUT function timeWait($microtime) {//optimizations added by me [start]//sleep the full secondssleep(intval($microtime));//set the microtime to only resleep the last part of the nanos$microtime = $microtime - intval($microtime);//optimizations added by me [end] $timeLimit = $microtime + array_sum(explode(" ",microtime())); while(array_sum(explode(" ",microtime())) < $timeLimit) {/*DO NOTHING*/} return(true); } //THIS IS HOW WE CAN USE IT echo "Process started at " . date("H:i:s") . " and " . current(explode(" ",microtime())) . " nanoseconds.<br>"; timeWait(5.5); //With this call the system will wait 5 seconds and a half. You can use either integer or float. echo "Process completed at " . date("H:i:s") . " and " . current(explode(" ",microtime())) . " nanoseconds."; ?>