I used the getTime function from that post, and it doesn't work. I stripped it down to something simpler, and I find that I'm getting different output on each run for the same input! Any clue what's wrong here? 
sub getTime{
    my ($filetimepointer) = @_;

    my $systemtime = pack("SSSSSSSS",0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0);

    my $FileToSystem = new Win32::API ("kernel32", "FileTimeToSystemTi
+me", ['P','P'] , 'I');
    $FileToSystem->Call($filetimepointer,$systemtime);

    my($year,$month,$wday,$day,$hour,$minute,$second,$msecond) 
                                    = unpack("SSSSSSSS",$systemtime);
    return ($year,$month,$wday,$day,$hour,$minute,$second,$msecond);
}

sub printtime
 {
 my $time= shift;
 my ($year,$month,$wday,$day,$hour,$minute,$second,$msecond)= getTime 
+(time);
 $second += $msecond/1000;
 print "$year-$month-$day $hour:$minute:$second\n";
 }

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my sample data is (in hex) f0 25 f6 89 15 13 c2 01. I read that from a file, and note that the same 8 bytes are in my unpacked $time variable that I pass into printtime as I see in the file.

In reply to looks good, but something fishy is happening by John M. Dlugosz
in thread Win32 FILETIME and 64-bit numbers by John M. Dlugosz

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