Manual:$wgRequestTime

Global object: $wgRequestTime
timer, initialized in WebStart.php and Maintenance.php
Deprecated in:	1.25.0
Removed in:	1.32.0
Class:	Unspecified
Located in:	Unspecified

Overview

Warning:

This is not an object variable, but is a global initialized by MediaWiki.

$wgRequestTime is a global microtime float that is initialized early in the engine that a lot of other times are computed relative to for logging, profiling, and debugging.

Examples

A snippet from Debug.php:

global $wgRequestTime;
return array(
    'time' => microtime( true ) - $wgRequestTime,
);