According to the values I was getting back from my function the 732 added to the difference found gave me the exact numeric value that I needed. How do I "install" modules such as DateTime? I tried a few minutes earlier to put it into one of my namespaces and kept getting a CGI error back when I tried putting in use DateTime at the top of my .pl script. Thanks for the info. I'll give DateTime a try instead as the whole offset from GMT isn't too appealing.