Try this, you have to use POSIX, but ... 
use POSIX qw/difftime mktime/;

my $now = time();
my @then = ($ARGV[0] =~ /^(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})/);
my $then = mktime(0,0,0,$then[2],$then[1]-1,$then[0]-1900);

my $diff = difftime($now,$then);

printf("%d days", int($diff/86400) );
printf(", %d hours", int( $diff%86400)/3600 );
printf(", %d minutes ", int( ($diff%86400)%3600 )/60 );
printf(", %d seconds \n", ( ($diff%86400)%3600 )%60 );

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It may not be elegant, and could defintely benefit from some cleaner formatting like use of constants, but it gets the point across

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In reply to Re: Subtracting and Comparing Two Dates by BaldPenguin
in thread Subtracting and Comparing Two Dates by mindful07

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