#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; $|++; use Time::Local; my $online = [ map { timelocal( (split /[:\/\s]+/)[2,1,0,4,3,5] ) } ]; my $total = 0; for ( local $_ = 0; $_ <= $#{$online}; $_ += 2 ) { $total += $online->[$_+1] - $online->[$_]; } print "$total seconds online\n" __DATA__ 10:09:55 05/28/00 Sunday 10:37:45 05/28/00 Sunday 09:27:02 05/29/00 Monday 09:34:05 05/29/00 Monday 20:48:00 05/29/00 Monday 20:57:19 05/29/00 Monday 21:38:32 05/29/00 Monday 21:40:14 05/29/00 Monday 09:32:50 05/30/00 Tuesday 09:37:29 05/30/00 Tuesday 13:03:23 05/30/00 Tuesday 13:09:45 05/30/00 Tuesday