The $diff part works but not the addition of $t, how do I add that time to it? Obviously I need to convert it to something Time::Piece understands.

You cannot add a timestamp to another timestamp, that makes no logical sense. I'll therefore assume that what you have in this line:

my(@times) = ("00:05:21","00:08:05","00:10:33");

are not timestamps but durations. Therefore all you need to do is to convert these durations into seconds which you can then add to a Time::Piece object. You can either parse this yourself or else use something like Time::Duration::Parse.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::Piece;
use Time::Seconds;

my @durations = (qw/00:05:21 00:08:05 00:10:33/);

my $start = localtime;

for my $d (@durations) {
    print "$start plus $d = ";
    my ($hh, $mm, $ss) = split /:/, $d;
    my $t = $start + $hh * ONE_HOUR + $mm * ONE_MINUTE + $ss;
    print "$t\n";
}

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In reply to Re: Comparing time strings from a list of HH:MM:SS times by hippo
in thread Comparing time strings from a list of HH:MM:SS times by slugger415

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