Re: Use 'strftime' to calculate a date/time in the Past.

in reply to Use 'strftime' to calculate a date/time in the Past.

FWIW, I used Time::Local for a one-liner:

perl -MTime::Local=timelocal -e 'print scalar localtime timelocal qw(3
+0 40 2 15 8 2012)';
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Update: to get the day, date, and time 48 days ago:

#!/usr/bin/perl -l

use strict;
use autodie;
use warnings;
use POSIX 'strftime';
use Time::Local 'timelocal';

my $days_ago = '48';
($days_ago)  = strftime("%d", gmtime(
    time - $days_ago * 86400
));

print scalar localtime timelocal(
    30, 40, 2, $days_ago, 7, 2012,
);
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Re^2: Use 'strftime' to calculate a date/time in the Past. by Anonymous Monk on Sep 17, 2012 at 21:42 UTC
But you don't do date math, the thing the OP is trying to do	[reply]

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