RE: I'd tell you how long it'll take for my hair to fall out but I'm struggling with duration!

 
> this seems to do what you wanted?
> 
>      my $dt1 = DateTime->new(
>          year   => 2008,
>          month  => 10,
>          day    => 2,
>      );
> 
>      my $dt2 = DateTime->new(
>          year   => 2008,
>          month  => 10,
>          day    => 5,
>      );
> 
>      my $diff = $dt2 - $dt1;
>      print $diff->delta_days, "\n";
> 
> --d
> 

Thanks to everyone for their reply, I'm quite pleased I wasn't being
_too_ much of a moron and that it's set off an interesting insight into
leap seconds. I knew there'd be a much easier way of doing it. 

> > Have I missed something?! I'm thinking there's probably a _much_ 
> > easier way of getting what I want and it's just passed by 
> my small boy brain.

Special thanks to Daisuke for the pointer.

Kristian