Depends on the overhead you want. You can use timelocal and a simple calculation verses the overhead of the other routines to get a delta.
Wags ;) -----Original Message----- From: Dittrich G. Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 09:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: delta time/date I try to find a quick and uncomplicated way to calculate the difference between one and another date/time: @date1 = ($year1, $month1, $day1, $hour1, $minute1); @date2 = ($year2, $month2, $day2, $hour2, $minute2); @deltaDateTime = "difference"(@date1, @date2); print "@deltaDateTime\n"; 0 0 0 12 35 anyone any suggesting for a quick way ...and covering issues like 28Feb 30/31 month-length ... (perl 5.005_3 on FreeBSD) thanks in advanced Michael G. Dittrich -- berlin.de - meine stadt im netz. Jetzt eigene eMail-adresse @berlin.de sichern! http://www.berlin.de/home/MeineStadt/Anmeldung -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]