Hello,

Yes I have got a solution (Maybe ;) )...

####CODE####
use Time::Local; #Epoch Decleares

$date = `date +%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S`; 
$epdate = &epoch($date);
($eday, $emon, $eyear, $ehr, $emin, $esec) = &etime($epdate);
 
print "Current Date: $date\nEpoch: $epdate\n";
printf "%2d %3s %4d %02d\:%02d\:%02d\n", $eday, $emon, $eyear, $ehr, $
+emin, $esec, $host;

exit;
### Subs

sub etime  ##Change from Epoch Time to DMYHMS
  {
  my $date = @_[0];
  my %emonths = ('1',Jan,'2',Feb,'3',Mar,'4',Apr,'5',May,'6',Jun,
           '7',Jul,'8',Aug,'9',Sep,'10',Oct,'11',Nov,'12',Dec);
  ($esec, $emin, $ehr, $eday, $emon, $eyear) = localtime($date);
  $eyear = $eyear+1900; $emon = $emon+1; $ehr = $ehr; #Time Zone Chang
+e (Zulu)
  $emon = $emonths{$emon};
  return ($eday, $emon, $eyear, $ehr, $emin, $esec);
  }

sub epoch  ##Change from DMYHMS to Epoch Time
  {
  my $date = @_[0];

  %months = ('Jan',1,'Feb',2,'Mar',3,'Apr',4,'May',5,'Jun',6,
             'Jul',7,'Aug',8,'Sep',9,'Oct',10,'Nov',11,'Dec',12);
  $date =~ tr/\[//d;
  @dates = split(/\:/, $date);
  @mons  = split(/\//, $dates[0]);
  $year = $mons[2]; $mon = $mons[1]; $day = $mons[0];
  $hr = $dates[1]; $min = $dates[2]; $sec = $dates[3];
  my $mon = $months{$mon};
  if(!($mon < 1) || ($mon > 12))
    {
    $time = timelocal($sec, $min, $hr, $day, $mon-1, $year-1900); #con
+verts to Epoch
    chomp($time);
    }
  return $time;
  }
####CODE####

###Output####
Current Date: 16/Dec/2001:22:02:08

Epoch: 1008568928
16 Dec 2001 22:02:08

###Output####

Hope This Helps,
Joe
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This will work great for converting New Zealand time to EST US. Now I need to see if there is a function for day light savings so I wont have to change the code every few months

Is there an easy way to take a string like "01-Jan-2003" and get an epoch value of it?