Using core functionality: 

use Time::Local qw( timelocal_nocheck );
use POSIX       qw( strftime );

my ($sec,$min,$hour,$day,$mon,$year) = localtime;

for (0..3) {
   my $time = timelocal_nocheck($sec,$min,$hour,$day,$mon-$_,$year);
   print(strftime("%Y-%m", localtime($time)), "\n");
}

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Update: Nevermind. Buggy because of the following change to Time::Local:

Removed the code from the docs that implied that the *_nocheck variants were created for doing date math. They're just for speeding things up when you have known valid data. If you pass them invalid data, you'll probably get an incorrect answer. See #31421 on rt.perl.org for discussion.

I do get invalid data.

In reply to Re: Month Dates by ikegami
in thread Month Dates by Anonymous Monk

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