If by day, the OP means 24 hours, that's fine. If he just wants to move back the date one day without changing the time, your solution is wrong since not every day has 24*60*60 seconds. Use timegm+gmtime to do date manips. 

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

my ($d,$m,$y) = (localtime())[3,4,5];

print(strftime("%Y_%m_%d\n", 
   gmtime(timegm(0,0,0,$d,$m,$y) - 24*60*60)
));

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With time: 

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

my ($sec,$min,$hour,$d,$m,$y) = localtime();
($d,$m,$y) = (gmtime(timegm(0,0,0,$d,$m,$y) - 24*60*60))[3,4,5];

print(strftime("%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S\n", $sec,$min,$hour,$d,$m,$y));

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In reply to Re^2: How to subtract date by 1 day by ikegami
in thread How to subtract date by 1 day by ewhitt

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