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Old 11-15-2007
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline
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The datecalc script in Perderabo's thread on Date Arithmetic - in the FAQ section
will subtract 1, 2, 3... n days from a date and return a date. So you could get
today - 2 = 20071113
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