If I had a timestamp from 3 days ago at 4:31 pm, and one from 9 days ago at 2:40am, what kind of command would tell me the amount of days between there, not hours, minutes or anything like that, just complete days??

For example:
my $_timestamp1 = '1189669351';
my $_timestamp2 = '1189395751';

my $_timebetween = $_timestamp1 - $_timestamp2;
# $_timebetween now has 273600 which if I do (273600 / (60 * 60 * 24) 
+it is 3.1666666666666666666666666666667

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So should I just do that and erase everything to the right of the period? Or is there a module that will make it more simple, or any code?

Thank you.

In reply to question about unix timestamps (epoch) by Anonymous Monk

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