#! perl -slw use strict; open EXE, '<:raw', $ARGV[0] or die "$ARGV[0] : $!"; my $dos = do{ local $/ = \65536; }; die "$ARGV[0] is not a .exe or .dll (sig='${ \substr $dos, 0, 2 }')" unless substr( $dos, 0, 2 ) eq 'MZ'; my $coffoff = 8+ unpack 'x60 V', $dos; read( EXE, $dos, $coffoff - 65536 + 4, 65536 ) or die $! if $coffoff > 65536; my $ts = unpack "x$coffoff V", $dos; print "$ARGV[0] : ", scalar( localtime $ts) || "has unfathomable timestamp value $ts" );