Nah, not homework. I'm doing an internship where I'm working to create a time management system. The program is only to accept dates that are a friday. If the day is not a friday, I need to automatically adjust to the friday of that week. I could brute force a solution, but before I did I was just wondering if there was a way to have localtime or gmtime do the work for me. Date::Calc is also not an option, because they do not have the module installed and I'm unable to install it (I ran into a similar problem when i wanted them to install a module for threading).