Ed Reingold <reingold at emr.cs.iit.edu>

(calendar-current-date): Add an optional argument giving an offset from today.

lisp/ChangeLog

+2009-07-08  Ed Reingold  <reingold@emr.cs.iit.edu>
+
+	* calendar/calendar.el (calendar-current-date):
+	Add an optional argument giving an offset from today.
+
 2009-07-08  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
 	* tutorial.el (tutorial--describe-nonstandard-key):

lisp/calendar/calendar.el

@@ -1784,10 +1784,14 @@ the STRINGS are just concatenated and the result truncated."
          (t (set-buffer buffer)
             (bury-buffer))))))
 
-(defun calendar-current-date ()
-  "Return the current date in a list (month day year)."
+(defun calendar-current-date (&optional offset)
+  "Return the current date in a list (month day year).
+Optional OFFSET is number of days from current date."
   (let ((now (decode-time)))
-    (list (nth 4 now) (nth 3 now) (nth 5 now))))
+    (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute
+     (+ (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian
+         (list (nth 4 now) (nth 3 now) (nth 5 now)))
+        (if offset offset 0)))))
 
 (defun calendar-column-to-segment ()
   "Convert current column to calendar month \"segment\".