In another world, you could simply use the date command to do similar
(convert to seconds from epoch and subtract). KISS.
Maybe LE (of which I know not much at all) has something similar.

I'm sure Steve will bob up with a course that has this as part of the
curriculum ....   ;-)

Shane ...


On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 21:21:51 -0500 Brian Westerman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a module that I created many years ago that computes the
> number of days between two dates, but I have been asked if there is a
> way to expand it to compute the total time between the two dates as
> well (if supplied with the HH:MM:SS as well).
>
> In the past I have always calculated elapsed time via starting with
> the STCK times, subtracting them and then converting them to a
> readable format, but in this case I have the fields already as
> start-MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS end-MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS.

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