Must have to do with the conversion function for month short names from locale at the beginning of the script, I am not good enough at Perl to be able to change anything there ... I think it will continue working since the function fills an array with all 12 month names. I hope you did not hard-code a month into the script. I think you should look at the entries at Nov 1st and you will know what happens

Well I did the following: #year is not in syslog date format... try to guess it from the local time # ***TODO*** what happen when the year change ? my($year); my($month); $month = shift(@entry_split); (undef,undef,undef,undef,$month,$year,undef,undef,undef) = localtime(time); $month += 1; $year += 1900; # $entry{'date'}="$year-".$m{shift(@entry_split)}."-".shift(@entry_split)." ".shift(@entry_split); $entry{'date'}="$year-".$month."-".shift(@entry_split)." ".shift(@entry_split); Thans for everything, Bruno