If you need to script it, check out Steffen
Beyer’s date calculation suite: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Date-Calc.
#!/bin/perl -w
###################################################
##
## Copyright (c) 1998 -
2004 by Steffen Beyer.
## All rights reserved.
##
## This program is free
software; you can redistribute it
## and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
##
###################################################
BEGIN { eval { require bytes; }; }
use strict;
no strict "vars";
use Date::Calc qw(:all);
$yy1 = (@ARGV)[0];
$mm1 = (@ARGV)[1];
$dd1 = (@ARGV)[2];
$delta = (@ARGV)[3];
($year,$month,$day) =
Add_Delta_Days($yy1,$mm1,$dd1,$delta);
printf
"%.2u/%.2u/%.4u\n",$month,$day,$year;
__END__
-Neil
From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]
On Behalf Of Stump, Bob A
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008
1:16 PM
To: veritas-bu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] date
calculator
Does anyone know how I can recalculate what a date would be if I
added 558 days to it?
For instance, what date would it be 558 days after July 7, 2008?
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