Date Month Year

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Dear All,
I have a line of code like this to display today's date month year :
dt=SelectedValue(DateTime());
str_Day=DateTimeFormat("%d",dt);
str_Month=DateTimeFormat("%B",dt);
str_Year=DateTimeFormat("%Y",dt);
GfxTextOut(str_Day+" "+str_Month+" "+str_Year,1530,272);

I want to display the date, month, and year from 3 days ago, but I get an error.
GfxTextOut((str_Day+" "+str_Month+" "+str_Year,-3),1530,272);

Please correct this code
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks for help.

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Also what error are you getting?

It looks like have some braces in wrong place.

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Instead of calling DateTimeFormat() 3 times,

do it once,

dt = SelectedValue( DateTime() );
str_date = DateTimeFormat( "%d %B %Y", dt ); // space separated
GfxTextOut( str_date, 1530, 272 );

And if it for 3 days ago in daily timeframe, dont use SelectedValue() but
dt = Ref( DateTime() , -3 );

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Hi Dear Thomas & nsm51

Thanks for your help
Very helpful