Hey Jame!   
      
   Hopefully this is the last message from me about this particular   
   subject.  :::knocking on wood:::   
      
   I more or less took your advice about man pages except decided to let   
   the perldoc site do all the dirty work for me and found this within   
   http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/localtime.html;   
      
   "$mon the month in the range 0..11, with 0 indicating January and 11   
   indicating December. This makes it easy to get a month name from a list"   
      
   That makes perfect sense but doesn't really explain the 16 bit binary   
   month in FTN pkt headers or does it?  Do any of your modules use the   
   output from an incoming packet in that manner?  Offhand I cannot really   
   see it being of any real consequence but then again I haven't seen the   
   value of ANY of the data within a pkt header so I might be extremely   
   prejudiced.   
      
   At the very least I now know why $mon is 0..11 in localtime and it has   
   nothing to do with direct display of it's value and more to do with zero   
   based lists, arrays, etc.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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