look into the perl module Date::Calc, it's has ALOT of features that are quite useful for date manipulation.
jeff. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric Six > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:44 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message