Hi Monks,

I'm trying to calculate the number of seconds between "now" and an ISO8601 date

So far I have the following code, 


use Time::Local;
 
$start = '2013-10-28T18:59:52.863Z'; 
@parts = $start =~ /^(.{4})-(.{2})-(.{2})T(.{2}):(.{2}):(.{2})\.(.{3})
+Z$/;
$start_secs = pop(@parts) / 1000;
$start_secs += timegm reverse @parts;
print "start_secs : $start_secs\n";
 
$end=timegm(gmtime());
print "end_secs : $end_secs\n"; 
$diff = $end_secs - $start_secs;
 
print "$diff";

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It's not working, so can someone suggest a working/better/more efficient way?

In reply to time difference calculation by Anonymous Monk

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