use DateTime; my $dt = DateTime->now(time_zone => 'UTC'); $dt->add( days => 13); print substr( $dt->year, -2 ), $dt->month < 10 ? '0' : '', $dt->month; #### perl -MDateTime -e 'print unpack( "x2A2xA2", DateTime->now(time_zone => 'UTC') ->add(days => 13) );'