bigup401 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

any module i can use to get such output from 2018-10-25 13:45:32

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2 hours ago

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Re: time format
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 13, 2019 at 19:22 UTC
    DateTime::Format::Human::Duration
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      thanks

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Re: time format
by thanos1983 (Parson) on Jan 14, 2019 at 15:14 UTC

    Hello bigup401,

    Fellow Monks have already proposed solutions to your problem. I would like to add also another possible way.

    I prefer to use the module Date::Manip regarding Date/Time manipulations/calculations. You can find also here a few basic examples Date::Manip::Examples.

    #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Date::Manip;
use feature 'say';

my $date1 = ParseDate("now");
my $date2 = ParseDate("2 hours ago");
my $delta = DateCalc($date1, $date2, 1);
say $delta;
say Delta_Format($delta,"Was %hv hours, %mv minutes, %sv seconds");

__END__

$ perl test.pl
0:0:0:0:-2:0:0
Was -2 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds

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    Hope this helps, BR.

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Re: time format
by NetWallah (Canon) on Jan 14, 2019 at 04:55 UTC
    The core module Time::Piece is associated with the (also core) Time::Seconds ,
    which provides the "pretty()" method which should do the job.

    Older versions of the module do not have that method, so I have had to hack my own using "can()" to find if pretty exists, and use my hack if not (For systems where I could not upgrade perl/modules).

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