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by zadwang 1724 days ago
The unix date command does this.
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randomswede 1723 days ago
Well, GNU date does, BSD date may or may not.

Linux box:

  $ date -d 'now + 4711 days ago'
  Thu Nov  6 06:57:20 UTC 2008
  $ date --version
  date (GNU coreutils) 8.30
  Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
  <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
  This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

  Written by David MacKenzie.
Mac:

  % date -d 'now + 4711 days ago'
  usage: date [-jnRu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... 
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
I also seem to be unable to pull a version out of the Mac's date command.
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