Phil, Thanks for passing along the AppleScript Studio posting. At least I'm not alone and I won't spend hours trying to troubleshoot this. I may have even ended up doing an "Archive and Install" of the OS or some other major undertaking. I'll try your suggested code and Perl is looking pretty good too. Thanks for your input it'll save me a lot of headaches and time. -Duane Mitchell On 5/19/06 6:14 PM Philip Aker [log in to unmask] said: > Maybe: > > property pdate : date "Wednesday, January 1, 2003 00:00:01" > set vnum to ((current date) - pdate) > ((vnum as inches) as integer) as string > > But note this recent post to the AppleScript Studio list: