#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Date::Manip; my $far_date = UnixDate(ParseDate("40 years 20 minutes"),"%s"); print "40 years and 20 minutes from now is: ", $far_date,"\n"; print "epoch $far_date seconds translate to: ", UnixDate(ParseDate("epoch $far_date"),"%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S"),"\n";