---
name: "Time::Seconds"
section: "3p"
platform: "openbsd"
package: "man"
version: "8.0-current-20261101"
release: "OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01)"
platforms: ["openbsd"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Time::Seconds"
---

# Time::Seconds(3p)

a simple API to convert seconds to other date values

## NAME

Time::Seconds - a simple API to convert seconds to other date values

## SYNOPSIS

```
    use Time::Piece;
    use Time::Seconds;

    my $t = localtime;
    $t += ONE_DAY;

    my $t2 = localtime;
    my $s = $t - $t2;

    print "Difference is: ", $s->days, "\n";
```

## DESCRIPTION

This module is part of the Time::Piece distribution. It allows the user to find out the number of minutes, hours, days, weeks or years in a given number of seconds. It is returned by Time::Piece when you delta two Time::Piece objects.

Time::Seconds also exports the following constants:

```
    ONE_DAY
    ONE_WEEK
    ONE_HOUR
    ONE_MINUTE
    ONE_MONTH
    ONE_YEAR
    ONE_FINANCIAL_MONTH
    LEAP_YEAR
    NON_LEAP_YEAR
```

Since perl does not (yet?) support constant objects, these constants are in seconds only, so you cannot, for example, do this: `"print ONE_WEEK->minutes;"`

## METHODS

The following methods are available:

```
    my $val = Time::Seconds->new(SECONDS)
    $val->seconds;
    $val->minutes;
    $val->hours;
    $val->days;
    $val->weeks;
    $val->months;
    $val->financial_months; # 30 days
    $val->years;
    $val->pretty; # gives English representation of the delta
```

The usual arithmetic (+,-,+=,-=) is also available on the objects.

The methods make the assumption that there are 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 365.24225 days in a year and 12 months in a year. (from The Calendar FAQ at http://www.tondering.dk/claus/calendar.html)

## AUTHOR

Matt Sergeant, matt@sergeant.org

Tobias Brox, tobiasb@tobiasb.funcom.com

Balázs Szabó (dLux), dlux@kapu.hu

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2001, Larry Wall.

This module is free software, you may distribute it under the same terms as Perl.

## Bugs

Currently the methods aren't as efficient as they could be, for reasons of clarity. This is probably a bad idea.