Time usually returns the number of seconds that have passed since January 1st 1970 (GMT). Check it on your platform by using perldoc, type "perldoc -f time" on a command line. You might find the (standard) module Time::Local useful, because it converts arbitrary dates into epoch time, eg;

perl -MTime::Local -e '$time = timegm(0,0,0,1,0,70); print"$time\n"'
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Which will print out 0 if your computer uses the standard epoch.

or try:

perl -MTime::Local -e '$time = timelocal(40,46,3,9,8,101); print" $tim
+e\n"'
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which will print out "1000000000", because back in November (3:46:40 seconds, November 9th 2001), epoch times started being ten digits.


- Boldra