Then no lib isn't doing what you want.
Agree. But, that is the point. Outside of recompiling perl with new paths or significantly altering DateTime to use far fewer dependancies nothing can really be done.
test4 #!/usr/bin/perl BEGIN { @INC = grep !/5\.8\.[0-5]/, @INC } use DateTime; [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ time perl test4 real 0m5.780s user 0m5.524s sys 0m0.188s Matthew