Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:37:27 +1100 From: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Epoch Time on Freebsd with perl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20011119163225.01f5b130@mail.ideal.net.au>
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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.
Cheers
Chris
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