[stuff deleted - various things about printing time] Or... you could do it the way I prefer to do it: use POSIX; print strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%T%p\n",localtime()); strftime() permits major control on the output of time. Try it, you'll like it :-)! man strftime on your local unix box will give the meaning of the various selectors. Tom. Tom Kimpton -- Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam? Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it. Mrs. Bun: I don't want any spam! ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch