BrowserUk's critique (below) is well taken. Nonetheless:

CPAN. Search the "Date::..." and "Date..." Variant realm; specifically http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/JDB/Win32-OLE-0.1709/lib/Win32/OLE/Variant.pm. (Also on ActiveState's repository for d/l and install using ppm.

Also see:

• Win32::OLE::Variant - Create and modify OLE VARIANT variables
• Jan Dubois' explanations: http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol3_2/tpj0302-0008.html
• O'Reilly's Perl in a Nutshell, chapt 19.
• O'Reilly's http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/CodeDoc/libwin32/OLE/Win32/OLE/NEWS.html

etc.

This is NOT a question you should have needed to ask after your nearly five years here.

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