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From: marc@athena.mit.edu (Marc Horowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: gettimeofday
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Date: 26 Nov 90 04:22:45 GMT
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Feature request:

Is there a reason gettimeofday isn't in perl?  It exists in both BSD
and SYSV, the PC can approximate it, although with less precision, and
it's hard to do without a primitive (syscall is "hard").  I can't
imagine how it could break existing scripts.  Just define
gettimeofday() which returns ($tv_sec,$tv_usec).  Or make it really
spiffy and have it return that in a list context, and
$tv_sec+$tv_usec/1000000 in a scalar context.

		Marc