Hi. I'm currently working on building a HTML based multi-user chat room on a UNIX server. The problem I am facing at the moment is finding a way how to make the chat script know when a user is no longer chatting. Lets say they don't bother log off and just leave. The user's username will still appear on the chatters list even though he or she has not been using the room for ages. Does anyone know of any techniques that can enable the perl script to determine if a user has not been chatting for x amount of time? I've got a vague idea of comparing the current time to the time the last post the chatter has made, but I don't even know how to do that since gmtime outputs a letters and numbers. Somebody please help me on this. Thanks. Anh

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