Nik has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is it possible to abstract one time from another show anyone can use the different to calculate some things? 
$xronos = scalar(localtime(time + 10800));
$xronos =~ s/:\d{2} \d{4}//g;

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What if the date is like the above?
Can we compare to dates to find letsa say how many hours or minutes is the difference? and if so how? Thanks!
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Re: absraction of dates
by davidj (Priest) on May 29, 2004 at 21:44 UTC
    If you are looking for a way to calculate the difference between two dates, check out the Date::Calc module. If you are looking to do something different, please clarify your question.

    davidj
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Re: absraction of dates
by chanio (Priest) on May 30, 2004 at 04:06 UTC
    without using scalar you just compare the total number of seconds.

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