This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of Time::HiRes (renamed to be libtime-hires-perl). This is a Perl module for dealing with high-resolution time interfaces. This was put together by Michael Alan Dorman . The library is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit to find a CPAN site near you. The only change for the Debian package was the addition of the debian/ files. The Time::HiRes copyright is as follows: Copyright (c) 1996 Douglas E. Wegscheid. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Larry Wall's "Artistic License" for perl can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic