#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Time::Simple; for (){ s/(..)$/:$1/; my $former_time = Time::Simple->new($_); my $new_time = $former_time + 15 * 60; print "former_time is $former_time\nnew time is $new_time\n"; } __DATA__ 1250 0549 1103 1509 0423 0834