Andreas Schmidt writes:
> s.th. like this (not finished but may give you an idea ...):

...one possible (but long) method deleted...

> script was tested on sh.hpbin and on HP-UX and on AIX for today ...
>
> not covered: leap years.
>
> Will become very longish ... very boxed ("verschachtelt" in German ...) but
> primitive ....

How to do this in perl:

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#!/bin/perl

use Date::DateCalc(calc_new_date);

# Get today's date.
($sec,$min,$hour,$day,$month,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time);

# Compute 5 days into the future.
($newyear,$newmonth,$newday) = calc_new_date($year,$month+1,$day,+5);

printf "Five days into the future: %d/%d/%d\n",$newmonth,$newday,$newyear;
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Notes:

1) DateCalc is an optional add-on freeware module available from your nearest
CPAN archive.  See www.perl.com for details.  I don't include DateCalc in the
Perl/iX binary distribution -- you'll need to build it yourself.

2) localtime() returns $month as 0..11, but calc_new_date() expects 1..12,
thus we do $month+1.

Perhaps this example will give you an idea of why I consider Perl to be the
most powerful thing I've ever ported to MPE.  :-)

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