Does $^T still work ?

[Nick Weavers]

$BASETIME (or $^T) seems to have stopped working for me. I have tested it on
RH linux 9.0 with perl 5.8.0 and under AIX 5.1 with perl 5.6.0 and it
returns nothing.

Does perl have to be compiled with any options enabled for this builtin var
to work?

Nick.

 

[J. Gleixner]

$BASETIME (or $^T) seems to have stopped working for me. I have tested it on
RH linux 9.0 with perl 5.8.0 and under AIX 5.1 with perl 5.6.0 and it
returns nothing.

Does perl have to be compiled with any options enabled for this builtin var
to work?

Nick.

BASETIME is defined in English.pm.

use English;
print $BASETIME;

 

[David Efflandt]

$BASETIME (or $^T) seems to have stopped working for me. I have tested it on
RH linux 9.0 with perl 5.8.0 and under AIX 5.1 with perl 5.6.0 and it
returns nothing.

Does perl have to be compiled with any options enabled for this builtin var
to work?

Following works for me:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
sleep 5;
print "This script took ". (time - $^T) .
" seconds in Perl $] on $^O\n";

Depending upon the system, returns one of:
This script took 5 seconds in Perl 5.006001 on linux
This script took 5 seconds in Perl 5.008 on linux