#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use Date::Calc qw/Mktime/; my $t1 = Mktime(2012,9,2, 19,58,0); my $t2 = Mktime(2012,9,1, 20,0,0); my $diff = $t1-$t2; print $diff . "\n";