use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say'; use DateTime::Format::Strptime; my $parser = DateTime::Format::Strptime->new( pattern => '%F %T.%6N', on_error => 'croak', ); while ( ) { chomp; my ( $t2, $t1 ) = split /, /; my $dt2 = $parser->parse_datetime( $t2 ); my $dt1 = $parser->parse_datetime( $t1 ); my $delta = $dt2->subtract_datetime_absolute( $dt1 ); my $delta_ms = sprintf( '%.3f', $delta->in_units('nanoseconds') / 1_000_000, ); say for ( $t2, $t1, "Differs by $delta_ms ms", '' ); } __DATA__ 2017-01-09 05:08:04.575804, 2017-01-09 05:08:04.319338 2017-01-09 05:08:17.093719, 2017-01-09 05:08:16.840292 2017-01-09 05:12:48.629407, 2017-01-09 05:12:48.372687 2017-01-09 05:13:25.315665, 2017-01-09 05:13:25.061834 2017-01-09 05:14:08.171994, 2017-01-09 05:14:07.916187 2017-01-09 05:17:03.182747, 2017-01-09 05:17:02.929309 2017-01-09 05:18:46.561289, 2017-01-09 05:18:46.305743 2017-01-09 05:19:09.772227, 2017-01-09 05:19:09.518975