How to calculate a date a week ago from today

Question

I wanna calculate the date a week ago from today with a specific format and put it in to a variable. For example, today is Nov 21st. 2014, and I wanna print out

Answer 1

Why not just subtract X days from the "mday" field of localtime? This example shows subtracting 60 days from the end of august. I'm not sure who corrects the month but I think I'm getting the right answer...

$ date
Wed Aug 30 14:34:14 DFT 2017
$ perl -MPOSIX -e '@t=localtime time; $t[3] -= 60; print strftime( "%Y/%m/%d", @t), "\n";'
2017/07/01

Answer 2

DateTime version

use DateTime;
my $now = DateTime->now(time_zone => 'local')->subtract(weeks => 1);
print $now->ymd, ' ',$now->hms;

Date::Calc version

Instead of one week you can subtract 7 days using Date::Calc module

use Date::Calc qw(Add_Delta_Days);
my @date = Add_Delta_Days( 2014, 11, 21, -7 );
print join('-', @date);

OUTPUT
    2014-11-14

Answer 3

This is very simple using Date::Manip

    use Date::Manip;
    my $today = ParseDate("today");
    my $weeksago = DateCalc($today,"-7d");

Answer 4

Check Time::Piece and Time::Seconds core modules,

use Time::Piece;
use Time::Seconds;

my $t = localtime() - ONE_WEEK;
print $t->ymd;

output

2014-11-14