#!/usr/bin/perl use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday); my ($secs1,$sec2,$micro1,$micro2); #discard once gettimeofday(); ($secs1, $micro1) = gettimeofday(); ($secs2, $micro2) = gettimeofday(); print "$secs1$micro1\n"; print "$secs2$micro2\n"; __OUTPUT__ 1133355471176848 1133355471176850