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Measure Elapsed Time with the Convenience Timer

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Demonstrates Socket.StartTiming, which starts or restarts the object's convenience timer. The ElapsedSeconds property then reports the whole number of seconds since the call.

Background. This timer is a convenience for measuring durations and does not affect connection behavior or timeouts.

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use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $socket = Chilkat2::Socket->new;

# Start (or restart) the object's convenience timer.
$socket->StartTiming();

# Perform some work.  (Here the thread simply sleeps to let time pass.)
$socket->SleepMs(1500);

# Read the whole number of seconds elapsed since StartTiming was called.
print 'Elapsed seconds: ', $socket->ElapsedSeconds, "\n";