in reply to how to get the time difference

I'd suggest DateTime::Duration:

use DateTime::Duration; + my $time1 = '11:30:25'; my $time2 = '12:45:40'; + my ( $h1,$m1,$s1 ) = split /:/, $time1; my ( $h2,$m2,$s2 ) = split /:/, $time2; + my $d1 = DateTime::Duration->new(hours => $h1, minutes => $m1, seconds + => $s1); my $d2 = DateTime::Duration->new(hours => $h2, minutes => $m2, seconds + => $s2); + my $diff = $d2 - $d1; + print +join ':',$diff->in_units('hours','minutes','seconds');

/J\