grep++, thanks this has worked wonderfully! ;-)

My code is a prime example of how one should never misuse (or shell I say 'abuse'?) a module for his own good. {grin}

update:
Thanks for the timezone conversion code, grep! ;) Although now I run this monitor script on the same server that the primary application (generating the logs) is running on, there's a possiblity of monitoring logs generated on remote servers residing in different time zones. This is when the timezone conversion will become handy.

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