I apologize, I've tried a couple things, and was working on the code as I was asking about it, if I can figure out myself, all the better, right? the lack of $s was because I was trying to put the results of the stat into an array and then take the date part and convert it to human readable date/time... that's what's not working... the rest of the code seems to do exactly what it needs... but I have 2 lines: 
printf "%s: Age [%s], size [%d]\n", $farm, ParseDateString("epoch $s->
+mtime()"), $s->size();

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Which gives me a blank area where it prints: Age [ ]

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And the other line 
printf "%s: Age [%s], size [%d]\n", $farm, $s->mtime(), $s->size();

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which prints the unix time in the age: Age [1106013532]

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so the question is why isn't it being formatted into a human readable date?

In reply to Re^2: Human Readable Date by FireyIce01
in thread Human Readable Date by FireyIce01

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