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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:55:18 -0400
To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
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Subject: calculating difference of times
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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