DateTime is made for exactly this sort of thing. For instance, if you want to filter a list of events to find just the ones that occur in the next three hours from now, it goes something like this... 
  my $starttime = DateTime->now();
  my $endtime = DateTime->now()->add( hours => 3);
  my @between = grep {
     DateTime->compare($_->when(), $starttime) >= 0
   and
     DateTime->compare($endtime, $_->when) >= 0
  } @eventtimes;

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Well, something like that. The ->when() method may not be how you get a DateTime object for one of your events, but you can adjust that part to match your setup. Also, the >=0 condition may not be right, if you want open endpoints for instance. (The return value of compare is the same as that of the cmp and <=> operators would be if the comparison were string or numeric, respectively.)

In reply to Re: Midnight wraparound. by Anonymous Monk
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