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> >     $now=localtime;
> >     print DEBUG "$now\n";
> 
> btw: When I use the upper lines, I get "Mon Jan 20 15:49:26 2003" as
> $now. If I do
> 
> print DEBUG localtime;
> 
> i get some big number. What is that number? Unix-ticks or what it's
> called? The difference is the scalar context, no?

You actually do not get one huge number, but several small ones 
concatenated together. Try:

        print DEBUG join(', ', localtime);

And see the localtime docs. :-)

Jenda
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