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I've just had another thought about this. The only other thing different between instalations that would affect the date is the version of the Date::Parse module. I use the str2time function from this module to parse the date and convert it into unix time.

There is a similar version number incompatibility with the DBI module and the 'mysql_insertid' function. In the older version, the function was returning null. I was pulling my hair out for weeks over this one as only captnroger had the problem. Then just last week, eric figured it out when he encountered the problem.