I've imported your subroutine into my code... However, I'm not getting the what I think I should. If I've got it right, your routine should return the unix time in epoch seconds. However, doing a "gdate '+%s'" on my system shows the epoch seconds = 1045700265... a bit different to what the routine returns (see below). In my case, perhaps the unpack format of the low_long and high_long paramenters in the routine require a little alteration? BTW, reversing the order of $high and $low into &quad_to_epoch didn't help... 
  print "$low $high ", &quad_to_epoch("$low $high"), "\n";

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low        high     &quad_to_epoch
2038398976 10599419 408804118300
2238398976 10599419 408804118300
2438398976 10599419 408804118300
2638398976 10599419 408804118300
2838398976 10599419 408804118300
3038398976 10599419 408804118300
3238398976 10599419 408804118300
3438398976 10599419 408804118300
3638398976 10599419 408804118300

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Regards, Stacy.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Unpack for VMS binary files by maderman
in thread Unpack for VMS binary files by maderman

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