How to find out what the date was 5 days ago?

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Published on 2010-04-25T16:20:02Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 16:23 UTC
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Well, the following returns what date was 5 days ago:

$days_ago = date('Y-m-d', mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m") , date("d") - 5, date("Y")));

But, how do I find what was 5 days ago from any date, not just today?

For example: What was 5 days prior to 2008-12-02?

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