Hi Perl Monks,

I am running into a small problem in my script, I am trying to work out the average time of something. Here is what I have done:

I use perl time() function to get the epoch seconds, i then update this whenever say an event happens by doing this: 
#$restime is called from the database, which is the previos total.
 ...snip...
    $current_time = time();
    $res_time = $logtime - $current_time;
    $newtime = $res_time+$stime; 
 ...snip...

#I then update the database by inserting new time, next time the numbe
+r will grow again etc..

[download]
Now what I want to do is convert $newtime to something like 6 hours 4 minute and 30 seconds

Is this possible?

In reply to time () by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.