Note that using time()+$nDays*24*60*60 can fail when done near midnight near transitions to or from daylight savings time. This is fairly easy to fix, tho:
my $now= time();
my($y,$m,$d)= (localtime(
$now + 60*60*(12-(localtime($now))[2])
+ $nDays*24*60*60
))[5,4,3];
print sprintf "%04d-%02d-%02d", 1900+$y, 1+$m, $d;
print $/;
Note that the use of $now is required to avoid one race condition but that it isn't enough since doing this calculation near midnight still has a race condition of whether "today" ends up being before mignight or after midnight. So you need to use $now to set all of the dates that get recorded. For this reason, I prefer {NULE}'s solution. But I wanted to point out the problem with two of the other solutions.
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