look into the perl module Date::Calc,
it's has ALOT of features that are quite useful for date manipulation.

jeff.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric Six
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:44 PM
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> Subject: Perl question... calculating difference in time..
> 
> 
> I know this isn't a perl list, but this is a perl on freebsd question! ;)
> 
> I have a script that is sorting log files. I want to calculate the total
> time between log entrys. Here is the format of the log files:
> 
> Dec 05 09:51:48.452 info info.info data
> ...
> Dec 05 09:53:49.543 info info.info data
> 
> The output should return something along the lines of: total time between
> log entries 02:01:01.091.
> 
> I have the time fields pulled out but I cannot figure out how to seprate
> them into a calculatable format. And if this was run from after 
> midnight and
> the log files rolled back to 23:00, how to calculate this..Any 
> help is much
> appreciated!
> 
> TIA
> Eric
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