Is there a native FreeBSD shell util for returning the time in seconds since the Unix epoch? date(1) doesn't seem to do this, only the converse with the -r switch: [6:05:51] munk at users /home/munk# date -r "1064293551" Tue Sep 23 06:05:51 BST 2003 Just curious - I ended up making a simple C app that does the job. -- Jez http://www.munk.nu/