"Richard A. Ryan" <Richard.A.Ryan / noaa.gov> writes: >The reason why I was trying to do it the way I was doing it was because the >data I was looking at had the day of the year and not the day of the month. Yeah, I gathered. If the normalization functionality were to be exposed via Time, though, I would prefer that it be by letting you do, e.g. Time.local(2004, 1, 203) rather than dredging up the not-quite-Perl-compatible interface. :) -Mark