I assume there's a typo in your post, and the second date result should be 03/09/2005?

So far as installing modules, it's usually as simple as running perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Calc' if you use *nix, or using ppm in Windows. You can see here for more info: http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html

This is another solution to your question, using Date::Calc: 

use strict;
use warnings;

use Date::Calc qw(Add_Delta_Days);

my ($year, $month, $day);

($year, $month, $day) = Add_Delta_Days(2005,8,24,3);
printf "%02d/%02d/%4d\n", $day, $month, $year;

($year, $month, $day) =  Add_Delta_Days(2005,8,24,10);
printf "%02d/%02d/%4d\n", $day, $month, $year;

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In reply to Re: Calculate date with days by chester
in thread Calculate date with days by darrengan

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