Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:55:18 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: calculating difference of times Message-ID: <20498.36790.654638.359301@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20120727123429.GA2094@tiny.Sisis.de> References: <20120727123429.GA2094@tiny.Sisis.de>
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Matthias Apitz writes: > Do we have something (in the ports) to calculate easy the > difference of two times given as hh:mm - hh:mm? Some hack in > bc(1) or something like this? Well, I could translate the times > into UNIX seconds of epoche, build the diff and reconvert, but > something more easy (and not in Perl or C, just shell); thanks I don't know if there's something already available. (Sorry - never had this problem.) If the format is fixed, then parsing it with awk is trivial. After that, the math should be doable with "expr". Robert Huff
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