What are the best practices for handling time-sensitive operations in PHP, such as delaying database entries?

When handling time-sensitive operations in PHP, such as delaying database entries, it's important to use PHP's built-in functions like sleep() or time(). You can calculate the delay time by adding the desired delay to the current timestamp. Then, you can compare this calculated timestamp with the current timestamp in a loop until the delay time has passed before executing the database entry. 

// Calculate the delay time (e.g., 5 minutes)
$delay = 5 * 60; // 5 minutes in seconds

// Calculate the timestamp when the delay should end
$end_time = time() + $delay;

// Loop until the delay time has passed
while (time() < $end_time) {
    // Do nothing and wait
}

// Perform database entry after the delay
// Insert your database entry code here

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