On Sun, 30 Dec 2012, Assaf Gordon wrote: > Sometimes old ways are the simplest (even if not pure Perl): > > $ date -d "2012-12-30 12pm + 10 days" > Wed Jan 9 12:00:00 EST 2013 > $ date -d "2012-12-30 12pm - 10 days" > Thu Dec 20 12:00:00 EST 2012 > > To print just the date: > $ date -d "2012-12-30 12pm + 10 days" +%F > 2013-01-09 > > Or just the day: > $ date -d "2012-12-30 12pm + 10 days" +%A > Wednesday > > The "12pm" is there to avoid leap-day related surprises.
That's acutally quite useful. -- Shlomo Yona [email protected] http://yeda.cs.technion.ac.il/~yona/ _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
