use POSIX; use Time::Local; print daterange(); sub daterange { my @dt = localtime; $dt[3] = 1; $dt[2] = 12; my $time = timelocal @dt; $time -= 24*60*60; @dt = localtime $time; my $ret = strftime("%d %b %Y", @dt); $dt[3] = 1; return strftime("%d %b %Y", @dt) . " - $ret"; }