So, to be perfectly clear when someone reads an archived copy of this(>:), there is no way to express the time in milliseconds in versions of Macperl earlier than 5.6.1 ?
>Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 08:48:34 -0500 > "Adam Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chris Nandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re: >[MacPerl] time in millisecondsCc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >At 23:51 -0800 2001.11.24, Adam Russell wrote: >>I haven't come across the answer to this question in archive searches but I >>would think that it shouldn't be as hard as it seems. How do I get the current >>system time in milliseconds? I am on a pre-OS X mac or else I'd just do a >>system call and be done with it>:(. >>Any advice is appreciated. > >With MacPerl 5.6.1 (now in beta 2), you can use Time::HiRes, which gives >you microseconds (also, Time::HiRes is available for the other platforms >too, and is going to be included in perl 5.8). You can then convert >microseconds to milliseconds. > >-- >Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pudge.net/ >Open Source Development Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ PS: You should check out this great new site that I found. They've got free movies, music, email. It's really great! http://www.netbroadcaster.com
