Hallo, William,

Du meintest am 11.05.08:

>>> i'm looking for a util which, given an integer argument N, can
>>> print the date of the day N days ago. example:

> [...]

> :*) because the man page does not even mention fuzzy dates.
> And, 'strings /bin/date' doesn't produce any such keywords.
> And, 'info date' only tells me to use 'info date' for the
> full documentation, LOL.

Try

info date
Node "Examples of date"

or (better readable)

pinfo date

You can find "pinfo" at "slacky.eu".

Viele Gruesse
Helmut

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