in reply to Compact script for time difference in seconds

All I need is to insert two time stamps generated by localtime() and get the difference in seconds.

You should use time 

perl -le "print q!10 seconds in the future !, scalar localtime(time + 
+10);"
10 seconds in the future Wed Sep 16 15:05:50 2009

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which are an overkill for my purpose.

How did you determine that? I don't know how to do it without Date::Calc ergo Date::Calc is overkill? :)

If you still advocate using Date::Manip for my really small task

Why suffer for a really small task?

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