As I said I am getting about 700 prints of the same time, and then the next set of lines is time+0.06
Actually, it should be closer to 0.055.

Windows' internal click gets updated 18 times a second, or once every 55ms, via a timer interrupt. The API call GetTickCount() exhibits the same behaviour as you describe here. The docs for this API call mention:

It is limited to the resolution of the system timer.
So yes, even though I haven't seen any evidence that the two phenomenons are indeed related, their symptoms are so strikingly alike, that I'm quite convinced they share the same origin. So yes, it's a Windows Thing™.

Update: I don't mean to say it cannot be fixed/patched, only that this is behaviour you'll typically only see in Windows, for this particular case.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Time::Hires Granularity by bart
in thread Time::Hires Granularity by pseudosocrates

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