It is a pure bug fix to allow Time::Local to work beyond 2038 on 64-bit systems and should have no risk at all: http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/32728 I guess you would prefer to get the updated version from CPAN, but it hasn't been updated in over a year. I did report the bug in RT 10 months ago: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=31497 I guess I should have attached change 32728 to the RT ticket too. Cheers, -JanThread Next