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I prefer thunders' method but here is another way: Re: Active Directory ldifde() time format conversion question.

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Re: Re: Win32 FILETIME and 64-bit numbers
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Aug 05, 2002 at 21:25 UTC
    I see: starting with a decimal representation, he just removed some characters from the right to bring it into the range of regular Perl-supported arithmetic (something like 53 or 56 bit significance, if I recall).
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      Yes, anything more accurate would require Math::BigInt (or similar). That's what OLE::Storage_Lite uses to deal with this problem portably.

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