timestamp in STDERR output

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:32:59AM +0200, Thomas Busch wrote:

> I must admit I don't get it either as
> 
> use Tie::STDERR \&timestamper;
> 
> sub timestamper {
>     print time().': '.shift;
> }
> 
> print STDERR "bla\n";
> 
> works fine for me.

That's because you're printing to STDOUT.  I should have written:

    print STDERR time()....

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