On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Sue Spence <virtuallysue at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','virtuallysue at gmail.com');>> Wrote: my $dt = DateTime->new( > year => $year, > month => 03, > day => 03, > ); > Why are you using octal numbers here? It's all fun and games till someone writes 09... Mark