in reply to Find minutes difference between two dates

For example:

use Time::Local; while (<>) { my @line=split(";"); my @start_time=($line[3]=~/(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)\s(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)/); + #parsing the start time my @stop_time=($line[4]=~/(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)\s(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)/); # +parsing the stop time my $start_time = timelocal($start_time[5], $start_time[4], $start_ti +me[3], $start_time[2], $start_time[1], $start_time[0]); my $end_time = timelocal($end_time[5], $end_time[4], $end_time[3], $ +end_time[2], $end_time[1], $end_time[0]); my $min_diff = sprintf("%.0f", ($end_time - $start_time) / 60); print $min_diff."\n"; }
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Also, your rounding function is weird. Use (s)printf if you want correctly rounded numbers.

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Re^2: Find minutes difference between two dates
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 06, 2009 at 20:25 UTC

    Also, your rounding function is weird. Use (s)printf if you want correctly rounded numbers.

    Not weird, and definitely cheaper than building a string then converting the string into a number.