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in reply to Re^2: Epoch time in milliseconds: Is there a better way?
in thread Epoch time in milliseconds: Is there a better way?

Or if you don't need the the time stamp later you could:

print STDOUT "timestamp = ", int (gettimeofday * 1000), "\n";

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