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 )) );