title: Which CPAN module should I use to calculate ahead a number of business days
body: <p>This is a two-part question:</p>
  
  <p>I want to calculate (say) 5 business days ahead in Perl. Accounting for both weekends and holidays. <code>Date::Manip</code> does this, but is very heavyweight. Is there a lighter weight module that would do this well?</p>
  
  <p>If <code>Date::Manip</code> is indeed the right choice, can you tell me why this doesn't print anything.  The documentation for <code>Date::Manip</code> on how to actually output stuff is very thin.</p>
  
  <pre><code>use Date::Manip;
  
  my $date = new Date::Manip::Date;
  
  my $err = $date-&gt;parse("today");
  if ($err) {
       print "Problems: $err\n";
  }
  $date-&gt;printf("It is now %b %e, %Y.\n");
  </code></pre>