Just a thought.. have you tried converting your start time and end time to epoc seconds using Time::Local? This is un tested code..

use Time::Local;

#               Second - Min - Hour - Day - Month - Year
my $starttime = timelocal($seconds, $mins, $hours, $day, $month, $year
+);

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You could so the same with end time and subtract them..

Something like ...
$starttime = 1031079733;
$endtime = 1013104442;

$diff = $starttime - $endtime;

print "there is $diff secconds between the 2\n";

$sec = $diff % 60;
$diff = ($diff - $sec) / 60;
$min = $diff % 60;
$diff = ($diff - $min) / 60;
$hrs = $diff % 24;
$diff = ($diff - $hrs) / 24;
$day = $diff % 7;
$diff = ($diff - $day) / 7;
$week = $diff % 4;
$diff = ($diff - $week) / 4;
$mnt = $diff % 12;
$diff = ($diff - $mnt);
$year = $diff;


print "\n\nDifferencre is $year Years $mnt Months $week Weeks $day Day
+s, $hrs Hours, $min Minutes and $sec Seconds\n";

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Any more expreienced monks to fix the above code would be appreciated.

Regards
Janine

In reply to Re: Elapsed date and time by J9
in thread Elapsed date and time by dbrock

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