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What is the way to get epoch microseconds without floating point?

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Re: epoch microseconds
by zwon (Abbot) on May 29, 2010 at 07:48 UTC

    Use Time::HiRes. 

    use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday);

my ($seconds, $microseconds) = gettimeofday;

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