Hello all,

Maybe I am not searching for the correct terms, but I have Google'd many variations and can not seem to find a way to convert from any time in Perl to Clock Ticks.

I have been tasked with the job of handing out the current UTC time from within Perl in ticks (the epoch being 01/01/0001 00:00:00, not 01/01/1970 00:00:00).

It is late and I have been ill, so maybe I am just brain dead, but I can not seem to come up with a reasonable solution.

I have seen the equation:

epoch = (DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime().Ticks - 621355968000000000) / 10000000;

But this is in C#, not Perl (I must remain strictly in Perl for this project).

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Edit to add attempted code: 
>perl -e "use bignum; $e=time; $t=(10000000*$e)+621355968000000000; pr
+int $t;"
634868272130000000

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Which does not give the desired granularity...

In reply to Calculate clock ticks since a given date by kurgan

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