Hi backdream,

You'll need to install the Time::HiRes module in order to do this - otherwise the best you can get is whole seconds - and even if you see "1 second" it could be anywhere from 0.00001 seconds to 1.999999 seconds. Hence, doing this without Time::HiRes is almost pointless.

You'll need to make the changes in gforum.cgi (I've done this from time to time for development/optimization purposes). Basically, add this line immediately after all the "use" statements in the file:



Then add this line immediately after "sub main {":



After that, you're going to have to add a global - called "time_elapsed", perhaps. Its contents will be:



Then, wherever you want to display the time, just put:

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Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
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