Is there a native function or otherwise to calculate the difference
between two given times to the milli second? I've searched the group
archives but the suggestions mostly come up with solutions to the
minute.

I can separate the values of hh:mm:ss.xxxx.

Thanks

On 14 Dec 2005 08:25:53 -0800, Dundonald
<mark.dundon [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a native function or otherwise to calculate the difference
> between two given times to the milli second? I've searched the group
> archives but the suggestions mostly come up with solutions to the
> minute.
>
> I can separate the values of hh:mm:ss.xxxx.
>
> Thanks
>
echo 01:02:03.4567 | awk -F: '{OFMT="%.3f";print $1*3600+$2*60+$3}'


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Dundonald <mark.dundon [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a native function or otherwise to calculate the difference
> between two given times to the milli second? I've searched the group
> archives but the suggestions mostly come up with solutions to the
> minute.
>
> I can separate the values of hh:mm:ss.xxxx.

http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/index.html#rpn

It's calculator modelled after HP-42S. So, it would go something like
rpn clearhms
rpn 0 1 2 3.456 hms++ # 0 day, 1 hour, 2 min, 3.456 sec
rpn 0 1 2 3.455 hms--
rpn = # 0 day, 0 hour, 0 min, 0.001 sec
or you can put them all in one line,
rpn clearhms 0 1 2 3.456 hms++ 0 1 2 3.455 hms-- =

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