Greetings, and apologies,
OK. I just figured out my own answer -- I overestimated the time it would take, see; use higher precision.
So changing the last line from: 
printf('Page processed by Perl %s in %.02f seconds',$],$total_time);

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to 
printf('Page processed by Perl %s in %.6f seconds',$],$total_time);

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Note the %.02f to %.6f
also worked with %.5f

Sorry for the noise

For the record, here it is without the other stuff
just the interesting/required parts: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
# at the top of your page(s)
use Time::HiRes qw/gettimeofday tv_interval/;
my $start_time = [gettimeofday];



# at the very bottom of your page(s)
my $total_time = tv_interval($start_time);
printf('Page processed by Perl %s in %.6f seconds',$],$total_time);
# note: could also have used sprintf

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--chris

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use perl::always;
my $perl_version = "5.12.4";
print $perl_version;

In reply to Re: What's wrong with my Perl process timer? [SOLVED] by taint
in thread What's wrong with my Perl process timer? by taint

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