I thought I had seen a thread about difficulties using the POSIX time functions--can someone refresh my memory about problems with mktime and workarounds (if any)? No matter what I feed to mktime I get a negative value back that chokes ctime, localtime, etc showing only Jan 1, 1904. TIA Alex ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org