That is, the Second Three Billion. #!perl -wl print scalar localtime time; print scalar localtime (3 * 10**9); Prints: Fri Jan 15 14:09:01 1999 Sun Jan 24 05:20:00 1999 You'll find out soon ... -- Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ %PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10 1FF77F13 8180B6B6']) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch