Hi, your technique is ancient, unreliable and unnecessarily complicated.

DateTime::Format::Strptime is the right tool as haukex has noted. Read the documentation about date math carefully.

Here's an example using subtract_datetime(): 

$ perl -Mstrict -MData::Dumper -MDateTime::Format::Strptime -wE 'my $p
+ = DateTime::Format::Strptime->new(pattern => "%b %d %T %Y %Z", on_er
+ror => "croak"); my ($dt1, $dt2) = map { $p->parse_datetime($_) } ("N
+ov 23 22:31:12 2019 GMT", "Mar 19 06:52:23 2020 GMT"); say for ($dt2,
+ $dt1); say sprintf("%s : %s", $_, $dt2->subtract_datetime($dt1)->{$_
+}) for qw/months days minutes seconds/'

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2020-03-19T06:52:23
2019-11-23T22:31:12
months : 3
days : 25
minutes : 501
seconds : 11

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You can of course express the delta however you choose, using the correct method calls.

Hope this helps!


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: date and time difference by 1nickt
in thread date and time difference by invisiblehand

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