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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