note aquarium or the more traditional approach<code> sleep 1123200; billdate= strftime( "%y%m", localtime( time ) ) . '01'; </code> just need to figure out how to make the first line of code run faster <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-243865"> <font color="ffff00">the hardest line to type correctly is: stty erase ^H</font> </div></div> 657745 657745