qwurx [shmem] ~> perl -MData::Dumper -MDate::Parse -le '@hash{qw(sec min hour mday mon year wday yday isdst)} = localtime str2time pop;print Data::Dumper->Dump([\%hash],[qw(timehash)])' '19 Aug 12:00 PM EDT' $timehash = { 'isdst' => 1, 'min' => 0, 'yday' => 230, 'mon' => 7, 'year' => '115', 'sec' => 0, 'wday' => 3, 'hour' => 18, 'mday' => 19 };