I am looking for a way to manipulate days and times by adding/subtracting X
number of days from the current date.  For example, if todays date is
19990615 (date "+%Y%m%d"), how could I get the date two weeks from now - add
17 days to the current date?  This is easy under OpenVMS using the DELTA
specifications.  Even linux has the ability to manipulate dates in this
manner (date -d).  I know I could write a script to manipulate the date
string as groups of integers but then I would have to accomodate for
calendar features.  Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Allen Belk
 | Allen Belk, Data Operations Supervisor
 | Office of Technology Resources
 | University of Southern Mississippi
 | allen.belk_at_usm.edu  |  601.266.4107
Received on Wed Jun 16 1999 - 00:05:17 NZST