Thx.. as far as I am aware I do not overlay or alias localtime() anywhere that would cause a cached value I have a statement as the second line of my app 
open DEBUG, ">", "debug.txt";
print DEBUG  "Begin: Debug " . strftime( '%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S', localtim
+e() ) . "\n";

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I have a statement before & after I unzip the help file.
and before/after I load my product reference files (this one I expect to be the trouble area. On windows it uses Find to get the individual lines in my product config files that matter. On my dev system it takes 2.4-2.5 seconds (timed with another language script wrapper) 
    my $ok;
    use Archive::Zip;
    my $z = Archive::Zip->new();
    eval { $ok = $z->read($HelpFile); };
    if ( $ok == 0 )
    {
        if ($debug)
        {    
            print DEBUG "Start unzip help  " . strftime( '%m-%d-%Y %H:
+%M:%S', localtime() ) . "\n";
        }
        # unzip the new copy of the scripts into the update folder
        mkdir './help';
        $ok = $z->extractTree( 'help', 'help' );
        if($debug)
        {
            print DEBUG "End   unzip help  " . strftime( '%m-%d-%Y %H:
+%M:%S', localtime() ) . "\n";
        }        
    }
    undef $z;
    unlink($HelpFile);
    if ($debug)
    {
        print DEBUG "Begin: Populating product names." . strftime( '%m
+-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S', localtime() ) ."\n";
    }

    populateProductNames();

    $products = [@products];
    if ($debug)
    {
        print DEBUG "End: Populating product names." . strftime( '%m-%
+d-%Y %H:%M:%S', localtime() ) ."\n";
    }

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and I have one just before I put up my wxPerl app window 
if ($debug)
{
    use POSIX 'strftime';
    print DEBUG "Starting window loop " . strftime( '%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S
+', localtime() ) . "\n";
}
$app->MainLoop;

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and I see this 
Begin: Debug 02-21-2013 12:09:54
Start unzip help  02-21-2013 12:09:54
End   unzip help  02-21-2013 12:09:54
Begin: Populating product names.02-21-2013 12:09:54
End: Populating product names.02-21-2013 12:09:54
Starting window loop 02-21-2013 12:09:54

In reply to Re^2: localtime/strftime not behaving as expected by sdetweil
in thread localtime/strftime not behaving as expected by sdetweil

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