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From: Stefan Wimmer <swimmer@gx.nl>
Subject: Re: comparing dates
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:25:21 +0200
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* urgrue <urgrue@tumsan.fi> wrote on 10/Oct/2003 - 11:54:08 :
> anyone know an easy way to compare dates and display the difference? 
> difference doesnt have to be in date format, in fact it would be even 
> easier if it was just one unit, like "total diff in seconds" or 
> nanoseconds or whatever, doesnt matter.

If you are comfortable with Perl you could use Date::Calc

  http://search.cpan.org/~stbey/Date-Calc-5.3/Calc.pod

It does a great job with everything involving dates ...

Greetz
Stefan