Re: Current Time with 5 digits of milliseconds         


Author: Peter J. Holzer
Date: May 12, 2008 03:58

On 2008-05-12 07:39, ambarish.mitra@gmail.com gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to get the current date-time with milliseconds upto 5 places of
> precision.
>
> That is, 20080512T12094565266 => YYYY MM DD T HH mm SS ms-5 digits
>
> Here, 65266 is the milli-second with 5 places of precision.

Since "milli" means "one thousandth", milliseconds by definition have
exactly 3 places of precision. The term you are looking for is
"fractional seconds".
> Any idea how this can be achieved in Perl?

Time::HiRes

hp
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