Dear Sir, I hope I have understood you correctly but I think you have done all the hard stuff already (and I thank you for it because I am using rrdcgi at the moment and you have provided a wonderful example of doing the same thing with RRDs::graph that I can use with CGI.pm [in this case to have a fill out form to get the start and end dates]).
Perhaps I haven't understood your question but if you only want the start and end dates in a consistent format (struct tm or time_t or localtime format) all I think you need do is 1 Use RRDs::fetch to get the start and end data 2 use Perls localtime function in a scalar context on the first element of the array ref that fetch returns somthing like (undef, undef, $data) = RRDs::fetch(<your_rrd>, <your_CF>, '--start', <your_start>, '--end', <your_start> + step>) ; $my_start = localtime($data->[0]) ; Yours sincerely. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stanley Hopcroft ------------------------------------------------------------------------ '...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...' from Meditation 17, J Donne. -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
