#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Date::Manip; use feature 'say'; my $dateInTwoWeeks = ParseDate("Friday in 2 weeks"); my $unixDate1 = UnixDate($dateInTwoWeeks,"%d-%m-%y"); say $unixDate1; my $dateTwoWeeksAgo = ParseDate("Friday 2 weeks ago"); my $unixDate2 = UnixDate($dateTwoWeeksAgo,"%d-%m-%y"); say $unixDate2; my $dateNextFriday = ParseDate("next Friday"); my $unixDate3 = UnixDate($dateNextFriday,"%d-%m-%y"); say $unixDate3; __END__ $ perl test.pl 09-02-18 12-01-18 02-02-18