diff --git a/lib/Transformers.pm b/lib/Transformers.pm
index 00bd89f6..561111fd 100644
--- a/lib/Transformers.pm
+++ b/lib/Transformers.pm
@@ -31,24 +31,26 @@ use Time::Local qw(timegm timelocal);
 use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);
 use B qw();
 
-require Exporter;
-our @ISA         = qw(Exporter);
-our %EXPORT_TAGS = ();
-our @EXPORT      = ();
-our @EXPORT_OK   = qw(
-   micro_t
-   percentage_of
-   secs_to_time
-   time_to_secs
-   shorten
-   ts
-   parse_timestamp
-   unix_timestamp
-   any_unix_timestamp
-   make_checksum
-   crc32
-   encode_json
-);
+BEGIN {
+   require Exporter;
+   our @ISA         = qw(Exporter);
+   our %EXPORT_TAGS = ();
+   our @EXPORT      = ();
+   our @EXPORT_OK   = qw(
+      micro_t
+      percentage_of
+      secs_to_time
+      time_to_secs
+      shorten
+      ts
+      parse_timestamp
+      unix_timestamp
+      any_unix_timestamp
+      make_checksum
+      crc32
+      encode_json
+   );
+}
 
 our $mysql_ts  = qr/(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d) +(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)(\.\d+)?/;
 our $proper_ts = qr/(\d\d\d\d)-(\d\d)-(\d\d)[T ](\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)(\.\d+)?/;