Hello Edgar, EC> strip highest bit something like tv_sec&~0x80000000 and this gives the sorry, but this is not correct I was to hurry to send this info to the list, next time I will check everything before sending, but everything else (except for the conversion part) seems to be correct. -- Edgar ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------