note kennethk My usual goto for dealing with time is [mod://DateTime]. I don't know about the particular string format you are listing, but chances are there is something to do it in the [cpan://DateTime::Format] namespace, as dscussed in [http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/DateTime-0.77/lib/DateTime.pm#Parsing_Dates|Parsing Dates]. <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-712372"> <hr /> <p>#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.</p> </div></div> 997304 997304