Command to get time in milliseconds

Question

Is there a shell command in Linux to get the time in milliseconds?

Answer 1

Perl can be used for this, even on exotic platforms like AIX. Example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday);

my ($t_sec, $usec) = gettimeofday ();
my $msec= int ($usec/1000);

my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) =
    localtime ($t_sec);

printf "%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d %03d\n",
    1900+$year, 1+$mon, $mday, $hour, $min, $sec, $msec;