As Arved said, 11 is correct. MacPerl comes with a mostly complete set of documentation. Please check it out. In the documentation for the module you are using: how true. double DOH. however, although it makes perfect sense progammatticaly, possibly there is a case for the months of the year being 12? yes I know. don't bother replying to this. sometimes humans are wrong, right? ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch