NOTE: I obviously misread when I posted...he/she said time when I though he/she meant date. I hope the modules I posted below help or just /msg me and tell me then reap this node

As a matter of fact, there is a better way.

With a really quick search through the CPAN I came up with these two, very efficient and optionful, modules.Some people might say that these are clunky and slow...I'll leave that to your own judgement

Hope that helps you. Also, you can get various formats in these modules (eg. 2/24/01 and so on) so you don't have to stick with that ugly one :)

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Dave AKA damian
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In reply to Re: getting the elapsed time by damian1301
in thread getting the elapsed time by Anonymous Monk

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