Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 01:36:14 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Epoch Time on Freebsd with perl Message-ID: <20011119013614.K69555@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011119163225.01f5b130@mail.ideal.net.au>; from chris@ideal.net.au on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:37:27PM %2B1100 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011119163225.01f5b130@mail.ideal.net.au>
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:37:27PM +1100, Chris Aitken wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> Something im trying to play with is this. Im pulling 2 date/time variables
> from a database, and what im trying to do is work out a comparison between
> the both dates..... for example
>
> $date1 = "2001-10-01 01:00:00";
> $date2 = "2001-10-01 03:00:00";
>
> What I want is to somehow calculate that there is 2 hours between these 2
> dates (or 120 minutes, or 7200 seconds etc etc)
>
> I know I can do a time() and it will return the number of seconds from
> epoch, but it only works on live time, and I cant feed it a date and let it
> calculate it on that.
>
>
> Any help on this would be appreciated.
$ man Time::Local
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