in reply to localtime/strftime not behaving as expected

i'll use this...
use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday tv_interval); [..] my $t0 = [gettimeofday]; my $resp = &long_running_funct(); my $ttaken = tv_interval ($t0, [gettimeofday]);
hth L*
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