#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use DateTime::Format::ISO8601; use DateTime::Format::Strptime; use Data::Dumper; my $di = DateTime::Format::ISO8601->parse_datetime('2018-08-20T06:43:50.330Z'); my $dv = DateTime::Format::ISO8601->parse_datetime('2018-08-20T06:46:56.147Z'); my $delta = $dv - $di; print Dumper $delta;