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  • There's a module called DateTime::Format::Duration that should do what you want. Unfortunately, it needs some work to pass its tests with the latest DateTime.pm.

    • The last time I checked (this morning), it did not do what I wanted. It could tell me the minutes component of the interval, but it could not convert the days, hours, and minutes to a total number of minutes. Unless I'm missing something, and if so, please point it out, because you will really help me.

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      J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
      • Have you seen my post on this?

        • Yes, I did, and thank you! I'd discovered delta_ms by that time. However, it still does not really DWIM. If I have real Date objects, I should be able to subtract them and get an interval that can be converted to whatever resolution or units I want. The problem then is that I have to do something unintuitive with my DateTimes: intuitively, I had written

          $end - $start

          and expected to get something that I could express as minutes. I shouldn't have to perform something other than subtraction in order to

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          J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
      • I think you'd be best served by writing a message to datetime@perl.org outlining what you want to do.
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