For that, you're probably going to have to use localtime() and timelocal(). localtime() is a built-in function that takes a time - number of seconds since January first, 1970 - and returns an array that looks like:

($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)

timelocal() is part of the perl module Time::Local. It does the opposite of localtime, taking an array and returning the number of seconds since 1970. The easiest way I can think of to do what you want would be to extract the day, month, and year from your date, timelocal() it to get a number of seconds, subtract the number of seconds in ten days (10 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds), then localtime it to get day, month, and year again. Something like this:

$date = (undef, undef, undef, $day, $month, $year);
$tenDaysPrevious = $date - 10*24*60*60;
(undef, undef, undef, $laterDay, $laterMonth, $laterYear) = timelocal($tenDaysPrevious);

See? Easy.

In reply to Re: Date by Anonymous Monk
in thread Find date 10 days before MM/DD/YY by Anonymous Monk

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