> Hi there, > > I've got a date field and a time field, how can I effectively subtract the > field ($date $time) - ($date2 $time2) from each other. I am using these > two fields to determine a server's uptime according to my database in > days,hours,minutes,seconds. > Kind Regards, > Werner Otto
Perhaps this is want you are looking for :-) #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Date::Calc qw / Delta_DHMS /; my $date1 = "2004-02-20 12:10:30"; my $date2 = "2004-10-30 12:40:22"; print join " ", Delta_DHMS(split /[-\s:]/, "$date1 $date2"); *** Output 253 0 29 52 Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
