Re: How do I find difference between two timestamps?

I'm new to programming, but can you convert them to epoch time, subtract them, then convert them back? Or is that inefficient?

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Re^2: How do I find difference between two timestamps? by chb (Deacon) on Nov 17, 2004 at 09:17 UTC
I'm not completly sure, but I think the epoch counts seconds, so the OP's timestamps would lose their information on milliseconds during the conversion.	[reply]
Re^2: How do I find difference between two timestamps? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 16, 2004 at 23:31 UTC
That's what all the previously mentioned modules do. It's not a question of efficiency, it's a question of necessity.	[reply]


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