Hi Monks,

on my linux-system i get the desired highresoluted time-values which i want to use to generate reliable different filenames.

tos@tux ~/d/tsp/lab/dvlp/tos/too
# uname -a && perl -v
Linux tux 2.4.21-xfs #1 SMP Fre Jul 25 00:06:47 CEST 2003 i686 GNU/Lin
+ux
perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

# perl -we 'use Time::HiRes ("time");for ($i=1;$i<=10;$i++) {print tim
+e,"\n"}'
1063031285.55356
1063031285.55394
1063031285.55404
1063031285.55414
1063031285.55423
1063031285.55432
1063031285.5545
1063031285.55462
1063031285.55472
1063031285.55481
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Not so on the win2000/cygwin-system.

tos@SYS-10102 ~
# uname -a && perl -v
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 SYS-10102 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown
+ unknown Cygwin
This is perl, v5.8.0 built for cygwin-multi-64int

# perl -we 'use Time::HiRes ("time");for ($i=1;$i<=10;$i++) {print tim
+e,"\n"}'
1063032731.06805
1063032731.06805
1063032731.06805
1063032731.06805
1063032731.06805
1063032731.06805
1063032731.06805
1063032731.06805
1063032731.06905
1063032731.06905
[download]

It appears that here the resolution is only 1/1000 second.

Any explanations for this behavior

greetings, tos