... 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 )) );