You can use Time::Local package. There is a function timelocal takes the seconds, minutes, hours, day, month, year and returns epoch seconds. - Venkat -----Original Message----- From: Fred Sahakian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:53 AM To: < Subject: Date Im Stuck! I need to figure out how to covert a date such as 10242001 into Epoch time or another format where as I can subtract 2 calendar dates and get a number. thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]