#! perl -slw use strict; use constant { MSEpoch_2_UnixEpoch => 116444736000000000, ## corrected }; my $in = '0x50c2b17c7c04c9014c69ac817f04c90176b7ed3581f7ca01ee1183dedea3c901'; my @hexTimes = unpack 'xx(A16)4', $in; my @binTimes = map{ unpack 'Q', pack 'H16', $_ } @hexTimes; my @unixTimes = map{ ( $_ - MSEpoch_2_UnixEpoch ) /1e7 } @binTimes; print scalar localtime( $_ ) for @unixTimes; __END__ [13:52:05.69]C:\test>845551.pl Fri Aug 22 17:28:27 2008 Fri Aug 22 17:50:03 2008 Wed May 19 18:29:26 2010 Fri Mar 13 13:23:16 2009