Found the story on slashdot about having some fun with CPAN, so I hopped over to perl.com to read the article. There is a perl module named Date::Tolkien::Shire, so I ran: perl -MCPAN -eshell cpan> install Date::Tolkien::Shire
Once that finished, I looked up what today was in Shire time (line cut for email): perl -e 'use Date::Tolkien::Shire; print \ Date::Tolkien::Shire->new(time)->on_date, "\n"; ' It returned: Monday 10 Blotmath 7465 Not too exciting, so I walked backwards a bit until an event occurred... perl -e 'use Date::Tolkien::Shire; print \ Date::Tolkien::Shire->new(time-(86400*15))->on_date, "\n"; ' Sunday 25 Winterfilth 7465 Council of Elrond, 1418. I started reading the Lord of the Rings in anticipation for the movie, and strangly enough, I'm at about the same time frame in the book. Perl fun. :) -- Rob <rob_at_euglug_dot_net> my @euglugCode = qw(v+++ e--- eug+ bsd+++ gnu+ S+++);
