#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Date::Calc qw(Delta_DHMS Time_to_Date); my @secs = qw(1000 10000 100000 1000000 86400 86399 3600 3599 0 31394 2941 -2941 -86399); for (@secs) { printf("%s%02d:%02d:%02d:%02d\n", $_ < 0 ? '-' : '', Delta_DHMS(Time_to_Date(0), Time_to_Date(abs($_)))); } #### sub time_remaining { my $input_seconds = shift; return sprintf(("%s%02d:%02d:%02d:%02d", $input_seconds < 0 ? '-' : '', Delta_DHMS(Time_to_Date(0), Time_to_Date(abs($input_seconds)))); }