title: How to calculate date difference in perl
body: <p>I am a novice in perl scripting. I have a requirement where in I need to find the difference of two dates in the minutes/seconds</p>
  
  <pre><code>$date1 =  Fri Aug 30 10:53:38 2013
  $date2 =  Fri Aug 30 02:12:25 2013
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>can you tell me how do we achieve this, Parsing , calculation , modules req and all</p>
  
  <p>Thanks
  Goutham</p>