in reply to Stupid Time issues

Three hours five minutes (03::05 as per your note there) and 7/19/05. Shazam! Glad we could help.

Cereally Seriously, the minutes:

my $minutes = 185; my $hours = $minutes / 60; $minutes = $minutes % 60; printf "Minutes: %02d:%02d\n", $hours, $minutes;

For the date you may want a regex or POSIX::strftime or maybe just fields from localtime. Where is the datetime coming from?