my application has a performance (elapsed time) problem. so I decided I'd instrument it with prints of localtime, as this topic suggests..

If you have a perl program that seems to be taking too long you can add print statements using localtime before and after a code block or subroutine to time execution: 

    print scalar localtime . "\n";
    retrieve_addresses();
    print scalar localtime . "\n";

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but, altho the app takes 30 seconds, the timers at the start/stop and along the way show the exact same time..
I actually use it like this 
print  "Begin: Debug " . strftime( '%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S', localtime() ) 
+. "\n";

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and got this 
first functional line of application
Begin: Debug 02-21-2013 12:09:54 
last function line of application
Starting window loop 02-21-2013 12:09:54
so, what did I miss? activestate perl 5.10, windows

In reply to localtime/strftime not behaving as expected by sdetweil

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