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@takaram takaram commented Sep 20, 2025

hrtime(true) always returns positive-int.
hrtime(false) returns an array of [second, nanosecond], where second is positive-int and nanosecond is between 0 and 10⁹-1 (because 10⁹ nanosecond = 1 second)

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I tried to remove the return type extension and add a stub like this:

/**
 * @template T of bool
 * @param T $as_number
 * @return (T is true ? __benevolent<float|positive-int> : array{positive-int, int<0, 999999999>})
 */
function hrtime(bool $as_number = false): array|int|float {}

but this doesn't work:

dumpType(hrtime()); // array{int<1, max>, int<0, 999999999>}|false
dumpType(hrtime(true)); // float|int<1, max>|false

false seems to come from phpstan/php-8-stubs.
https://github.com/phpstan/php-8-stubs/blob/0.4.30/stubs/ext/standard/hrtime.php

I also tried this stub:

/**
 * @template T of bool
 * @param T $as_number
 * @return (T is true ? __benevolent<float|positive-int> : (T is false ? array{positive-int, int<0, 999999999>} : false))
 */
function hrtime(bool $as_number = false): array|int|float|false {}

This works in most cases, but we see false when argument is not bool:

// before: array{int, int}|float|int
// after:  array{int<1, max>, int<0, 999999999>}|float|int<1, max>|false
dumpType(hrtime(1));

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