#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Date::Calc 'Date_to_Time'; my $command='"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" modifyvm "Adobe Acrobat" --biossystemtimeoffset -%s'; my $date='14.10.2011'; my $time=time(); $time-=Date_to_Time(reverse(split(/\./,$date)),0,0,0); $time*=1000; $command=sprintf($command,$time); [b] $command[/b] exec($command) or die(qq[ERROR exec "$command" ($!)\n]); die("Something went wrong!\n");