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: All, : : My goal is to get element 9 of stat which is mtime. I am : getting this with ease, but my end goal is to convert this : number back into a readable format giving me how old the file : is. Are you sure mtime tracks file age? I was under the impression that that was not what it did on most operating systems. : So here is a rough draft formula : (time in seconds - last : MTime ) = seconds old. : : Convert seconds old to a human readable time stamp using localtime (); : Any ideas or is there a better way? That looks right. Your code is missing a closing quote. You might commify the result as 1106803146 isn't very human readable. HTH, Charles K. Clarkson -- Mobile Homes Specialist 254 968-8328 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>