Hey wyant, Thanks so much for the help. I've been messing with this thing since I made the post. I used $epoch_time_var = timelocal(@time_array[0..5]) Guess I'll join the ranks of the truly paranoid. :-) Never thought to try that and I like it the best. Nice and compact. Maybe in a later iteration, I'll go with Time::2038. Haven't worked with that one yet. Thanks again for the help. Bruhn