Hi One of the varbind of snmptrap carrying date and time in Octet String. When i am trying to ocnvert it into string i got value that is not macthing the data and time. "DateAndTime (Octet String) (SIZE(8|11))" Here is my code $octets="D8 06 01 01 27 3B 00 "; @date = unpack 'n C6 a C2', $octets; ##</code><code>## $datetime = sprintf "%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d", @date; # no time zone print $datetime #$datetime = sprintf "%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d.%d%s%02d:%02d", @date; # with tz info ~ perl tt2.pl 17464-32-48 54:32:48 Please let me know what is the problem in my code. My id is"umkamath@in.ibm.com"