>> All I'm trying to do is take the hh:mm:ss portion of each timestamp
I completely missed this portion of your message. As per perldoc DateTime: $hms = $dt->hms; ...which will populate $hms with just hh:mm:ss. TFM also states how to do comparisons, additions, subtractions et al. Cheers! Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/