Fred, I don't know if this will help, but I have this code that figures out what yesterday's date is. It should be relatively simple to change it to two days ago. I am sure that there are easier ways to do it, but this has been working for me for a long time. The only two caveats are that I didn't design it to handle leap years and that I don't know if it will work after the year 2100. Wes %days_in_month=( 'January' => '31', 'February' => '28', 'March' => '31', 'April' => '30', 'May' => '31', 'June' => '30', 'July' => '31', 'August' => '31', 'September' => '30', 'October' => '31', 'November' => '30', 'December' => '31' ); ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)=localtime(time); @month=qw(January February March April May June July August September October November December); # if ($year < 100) { #This removes the "1" on the year, if there. $nyear=$year; } else { $nyear=$year - 100; } if ($mday > 1) { #This takes care of the beginning of the month $tempday=$mday - 1; #and year. $tempmon=$mon + 1; $tempyear=$nyear; if ($tempday < 10) { $yesterday="0$tempday"; } else { $yesterday=$tempday; } if ($tempyear < 10) { $lastyear="0$tempyear"; } else { $lastyear=$tempyear; } if ($tempmon < 10) { $lastmon="0$tempmon"; } else { $lastmon=$tempmon; } } elsif ($mon > 1) { $lastmon=$mon; $tempmon=$mon; $yesterday=$days_in_month{$month[$lastmon]}; $tempyear=$nyear; if ($tempyear < 10) { $lastyear="0$tempyear"; } else { $lastyear=$tempyear; } if ($tempmon < 10) { $lastmon="0$tempmon"; } else { $lastmon=$tempmon; } } else { $tempyear=$nyear - 1; $lastmon=12; $yesterday=$days_in_month{'December'}; if ($tempyear < 10) { $lastyear="0$tempyear"; } else { $lastyear=$tempyear; } } -----Original Message----- From: Fred Sahakian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:53 PM Subject: Date Im Stuck! I need to figure out how to covert a date such as 10242001 into Epoch time or another format where as I can subtract 2 calendar dates and get a number. thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]