Displaying of completion time of file transfer

czachary has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello all, Is there a way in Perl to display the time I takes to upload/download a file via CGI? Is there a module out there that could facilitate this?

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Re: Displaying of completion time of file transfer by InfiniteSilence (Curate) on Feb 03, 2012 at 20:13 UTC
`linux~> perl -e 'my $a = time; sleep 9; my $b = time; print $b-$a;'` [download] Take the time at the beginning, do stuff ,take the time at the end, and subtract. Celebrate Intellectual Diversity	[reply] [d/l]