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in reply to Calling Windows "time /t" command

Nothing Perl-ish about this: it appears you have bash or some other unix-y shell installed on the machines in question. (Do you have Cygwin installed by chance?) You're not getting the Windows time program (which prints the current time), but the shell one (which reports how long it took to run a program -- among other info).