NOTE 2: Since Sunday, September 9th, 2001 at 01:46:40 AM GMT, when the time() seconds since epoch rolled over to 1_000_000_000, the default floating point format of Perl and the seconds since epoch have conspired to produce an apparent bug: if you print the value of Time::HiRes::time() you seem to be getting only five decimals, not six as promised (microseconds). Not to worry, the microseconds are there (assuming your platform supports such granularity in the first place). What is going on is that the default floating point format of Perl only outputs 15 digits. In this case that means ten digits before the decimal separator and five after. To see the microseconds you can use either printf/sprintf with "%.6f", or the gettimeofday() function in list context, which will give you the seconds and microseconds as two separate values.

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