use strict; use warnings; use DateTime::Duration qw( ); my @times = qw( 5:21 8:01 5:37 7:19 5:46 7:44 6:43 7:17 8:02 6:50 7:54 8:44 ); my $dur = DateTime::Duration->new(); for my $time (@times) { my ($mins, $secs) = split(/:/, $time); $dur += DateTime::Duration->new( minutes => $mins, seconds => $secs, ); } printf("%s hours, %s minutes, %s seconds\n", $dur->in_units(qw( hours minutes seconds )) ); #### 1 hours, 19 minutes, 378 seconds #### ... my $dur2 = do { my $ref = DateTime->new( year => 2006, month => 1, day => 1, hour => 0, minute => 0, second => 0, time_zone => 'UTC', ); $ref + $dur - $ref }; printf("%s hours, %s minutes, %s seconds\n", $dur2->in_units(qw( hours minutes seconds )) ); my $dur3 = do { my $ref = DateTime->new( year => 2005, month => 12, day => 31, hour => 23, minute => 59, second => 59, time_zone => 'UTC', ); $ref + $dur - $ref }; printf("%s hours, %s minutes, %s seconds\n", $dur3->in_units(qw( hours minutes seconds )) ); #### 1 hours, 19 minutes, 378 seconds 1 hours, 25 minutes, 18 seconds # All of the minutes had 60 seconds. 1 hours, 25 minutes, 19 seconds # One of the minutes had 61 seconds.