Hello All, I am currently using Active Perl 5.8.8 and have built a PERL script to parse data from an MS Access Database and output the results to MS Excel file. The problem I am having is I want to create time intervals (buckets of a given duration) and count how many messages there are per bucket but have a time format (5/19/2008 6:12:44 PM). 
Example:

Bucket Duration : 600 sec (10 min)

Input:
S_TIME                    CountOfMsg
5/19/2008 6:12:44 PM    4
5/19/2008 6:17:44 PM    4
5/19/2008 6:22:44 PM    4
5/19/2008 6:27:44 PM    4
5/19/2008 6:32:44 PM    4

Output: 
Interval Bucket            CountOfMsg
5/19/2008 6:12:00 PM    8
5/19/2008 6:22:00 PM    8
5/19/2008 6:32:00 PM    4

I am having problems when I enter the time (in the current format) int
+o a perl hash to compare if its < or > the interval.

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So I need help converting the time to be rounded down into buckets. Can anyone give me suggestions on the easiest way to do this? Thanks in advance! Roy

In reply to Converting a Date/Time by ralife

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