Bob Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Or, you can use something like Date::Manip which handles the '2 weeks ago'
> type of expressions. It has its own UnixDate function that is similar to
> POSIX::strftime.
Aha... now we're talking. Date::Manip is what I was after:
cat test.pl:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use Date::Manip;
print &UnixDate((DateCalc("now","-3weeks")),"%m%d%Y_%T"). "\n";
There is probably even a simpler formulation.
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