Regarding the above bug report: Is this something that is likely to be fixed in the Perl core any time soon? Slaven Rezic found a website with an excellent description of the problem, and a general solution to it, at the URL: http://www.codeproject.com/datetime/dstbugs.asp I would love to see this done in the Perl core, but I'd be way out of my depth attempting it myself. I could, however, produce a Win32::* module based on it quite easily. If there is no prospect of a core fix then I'd like to go ahead with the module. Any comments? SteveThread Next