when I query unix for the day of year it gives me 330 when I do this prommatically using perl I get 329, is this because the first of jan is 0 or is there something else that's wrong? below is the code 
#Returns the Zulu data type
#Parameters: Number of minutes time will be offset - 0 for now     
sub getBinary_Zulu 
{
my $offset = $_[0];    
my $msec = 0;
my $epoch_time = time();
my $offset_time = $epoch_time + ($offset * 60);

my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime($
+offset_time);
$year += 1900;
print "$msec,$sec,$min,$hour,$yday,$year \n";    #debugging only
return pack("I6", $msec,$sec,$min,$hour,$yday,$year);        
}#end getBinary_Zulu

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