perl :: pls help conversion timestamp diff format to seconds

[viral]

pls help with converting difference of timestamp format (dd.mm.yyyy:hh.mm.ss) to no of seconds or milliseconds.

[morganelan]

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[viral]

i wish to convert the following timestamp format (dd.mm.yyyy:hh.mm.ss) to give an example (01.12.2004:03:23:21) to no of seconds?
actually its like two strings in the following timestamp format would come and we need a difference of it in seconds or milliseconds?
pls help with this

[harry d brown jr]

download and install http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SB/SBECK/DateManip-5.44.tar.gz

use Date::Manip qw(UnixDate);
($date,$time) = split(/:/, $YOURDATE);
($day,$mon,$year) = split(/\./, $date);
$time =~ s/\./:/g;
$newdatefmt = ${year}."/".${mon}."/".${day}." ".$time;
printf("New date fmt is %s\n",$newdatefmt);
$secs = &UnixDate($newdatefmt,"%s");
printf("Number of secs is %s\n",$secs);

You don't need to use milliseconds because the closest you have is "seconds".

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harry d brown jr