$ perl -Mwarnings -Mstrict -ML -E' my $parser = DateTime::Format::Strptime->new(pattern => "%Y%m%d%H:%M:%S", on_error => "croak"); my $dt1 = $parser->parse_datetime("2016080100:00:00"); my $dt2 = $parser->parse_datetime("2016123100:00:00"); say $dt2->delta_days( $dt1 )->in_units("days"); '