Diffrence between timestamps

[pavanponnapalli]

hi,
i have got two timestamps as under:

 my $time1 = "2008-10-06  11:20:23";
my $time2 = "2008-15-06  12:20:12";

i need to get difference between $time1 and $time2 i.e. i want $time3 should be equal to $time2-$time1. Is there any module to do the same? Please tell me.

Regards,
Pavan

[KevinADC]

Use the Time::Local module to convert the dates into epoch seconds then compute the difference. See the Time::Local modules documentation for details. It is a core module so your installation of perl will have it. If you get stuck after reading the documentation and writing and trying some code, post back.