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Re: Find 30 days from today's date

by golux (Chaplain)
on Jun 07, 2013 at 15:58 UTC ( [id://1037693]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Find 30 days from today's date

You're already using Date::Calc, so I'd go with Add_Delta_Days:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; use Date::Calc qw{ :all }; my ($year, $mon, $day) = Today(); show_date("Today's date", $year, $mon, $day); ($year, $mon, $day) = Add_Delta_Days($year, $mon, $day, -30); show_date("30 days ago", $year, $mon, $day); sub show_date { my ($label, $year, $mon, $day) = @_; my $date = sprintf "%04d-%02d-%02d", $year, $mon, $day; print "$label: $date\n"; } __END__ [Output] Today's date: 2013-06-07 30 days ago: 2013-05-08
Update:    Oh, now I see why you're getting different answers. It's because in:
$date[3] -= 4 * 7; ... my $month_ago_3 = strftime('%Y-%m-%d', localtime(time - 4 * 7 * 86400 +));
You're subtracting 4 * 7 days (ie. 4 weeks), rather than 30 days.

Does that help?

say  substr+lc crypt(qw $i3 SI$),4,5

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Re^2: Find 30 days from today's date
by CountZero (Bishop) on Jun 08, 2013 at 11:32 UTC
    4 weeks, one month and 30 days are all different. And then we are not even looking at the impact of such strange beasts as leap days, leap seconds, timezones, daylight saving time and more of this kind of "fun".

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