I'm not quite sure how to word this question, but I'm looking for the best way to get a date from the current date using how many days ago. For example, if the current date is 2005-03-29.

1 day ago: 2005-03-28

7 days ago: 2005-03-21

14 days ago: 2005-03-14

etc ...

Basically, I want to cover from 1 day ago to 30 days ago. I'm sure there are some Date modules, but I'm not sure the best one to use for this purpose.

Thanks a bunch all !!

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Thanks all for your help. With a collection of all your feedback, I implemented the following code. 

use Date::Manip
my $format = "%Y-%m-%d";
my $time = "1 day ago";
my $date = &UnixDate(ParseDate($time), $format);
print "$date\n";

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__OUTPUT__

2005-03-29

In reply to Getting previous dates from the current date by TASdvlper

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