At 16.30 97/6/9, Patton, Paul B (MN10) wrote: > require "timelocal.pl"; > @now = localtime; > $x = timelocal( @now ); > print join( ":", @now), "\nTimelocal returned: $x\n"; Try using the Perl5 module (which is included in the MacPerl distribution): use Time::Local; @now = localtime; $x = timelocal( @now ); print join( ":", @now), "\nTimelocal returned: $x\n"; returns: 55:34:18:9:5:97:1:159:1 Timelocal returned: 2948726095 -- Chris Nandor pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ %PGPKey=('B76E72AD',[1024,'08 24 09 0B CE 73 CA 10 1F F7 7F 13 81 80 B6 B6']) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch