geez...

So all that was required was to subtract 1 from $month1 and $month2 and all is ok?! I read the module and didn't get it. I read the section in the cookbook and still didn't get it. I was even told the month range was 0..11 and I still didn't get a clue.

I don't want to tell you how many hours I spent on this.

Thank you very much.

BTW, this will be called from another program that pings servers and gateways every five minutes. Should a machine not respond it will check with this script to make sure that the downtime isn't scheduled before sending pages/emails etc.