A todo for VMS: In blead@33891, 07arith.t is dying on test 11. From the comments, it seems that it is expecting the _strptime function (or something) to convert '2001-2-29' to '2001-3-1'. Instead it is failing with the message "Error parsing time at ../lib/Time/Piece.pm line 615, <DATA> line 17. -John wb8tyw@qsl.net Personal Opinion OnlyThread Next