It never worked right. here are my results for Oct 3 backwards 8 days... 
28, 9, 2000
28, 9, 2000
28, 9, 2000
28, 9, 2000
28, 9, 2000
27, 9, 2000
21, 9, 2000
21, 9, 2000

That isn't right at all... How about this: 

sub next_friday {

my $now = shift || time();
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$rest) = localtime($now);

my $then = (($wday-5) * 60 * 60 * 24);
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$rest) = localtime($now - $then);

$mon += 1;
$year += 1900;

return "$year.$mon.$mday";

}

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That is evil as heck but it works. If you want this friday to return next friday, you can ++$wday before the $then calc.

Notice I fancied it up enough that you can send it arbritary times or it will default to time(). Notice I made it a sub. Notice what I did to the logic.

Now, forget all that except as a basic lesson in how things work and use Date::Manip =)

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In reply to RE: Date munging suddenly broken by extremely
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