in reply to Finding the difference between 2 dates in seconds

Or, for the lazy...

use Date::Manip; my @sec = map UnixDate($_, "%s"), "Aug 26 23:10:59", "Aug 27 10:59:02" +; printf "diff secs: %d\n", $sec[1] - $sec[0]; # = 42483

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Re^2: Finding the difference between 2 dates in seconds
by Not_a_Number (Prior) on Sep 17, 2007 at 13:38 UTC

    I'm even lazier :)

    use Date::Parse; print str2time( 'Aug 27 10:59:02' ) - str2time( 'Aug 26 23:10:59' );
Re^2: Finding the difference between 2 dates in seconds
by ambrus (Abbot) on Sep 28, 2007 at 12:12 UTC

    Alternately,

    use Date::Manip; my $date_1="Aug 26 23:10:59"; my $date_2="Aug 27 10:59:02"; my $sec = Delta_Format(DateCalc($date_1, $date_2), 0, "%st"); printf "diff secs: %d\n", $sec;