Your code worked great! The only problem with that was you had month.day.year . I tried changing the script to allow the new format but I can't seem to get it to work now. The script below prints these results: 
05.05.06
09.03.04
31.02.04
15.01.04
16.01.04
15.01.04
01.01.04
01.01.04
14.09.04
01.01.04
01.01.04
01.01.04
04.05.06

Day: 05 Month: 05 Year: 06
Day: 09 Month: 03 Year: 04

Software error:
Day '31' out of range 1..29 at line 43

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Can you help me set it up so it works in this new format? it always dies on the third entry because the day is 31 when the error says it can only be 1..29.

Thank you! 

my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) =
                                                localtime(time);

my $today = time;
print "$today<br><br>";


foreach (keys %entries)
{
  my ($date, $course, $location, $job_type, $contact) = split(/::/, $e
+ntries{$_});
  print "$date<br>";
}



foreach (keys %entries)
{
  my ($date, $course, $location, $job_type, $contact) = split(/::/, $e
+ntries{$_});
  my ($d,$m,$y) = split /\./, $date;
  my $saved_date = timelocal(0,0,0,$d,$m-1,$y);
  my $days_diff = int( ($today - $saved_date) / (24*60*60) );
  print "Day: $d  Month: $m  Year: $y<br>";
}

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In reply to Re: Re: Calculating between times by Anonymous Monk
in thread Calculating between times by Anonymous Monk

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