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List:       perl-datetime
Subject:    More Date:: modules
From:       Rich Bowen <rbowen () rcbowen ! com>
Date:       2001-08-06 2:42:10
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Although my publisher firmly believes I am writing a book, I spent
most of this weekend writing modules in the Date:: namespace, working
through several that I have been meaning to do for a while.

Date::Passover calculates the dates for Passover and Rosh Hashanah.

Date::GoldenNumber (currently included in the Date::Passover
distribution) calculates the golden number for a given year -
an important number used in a variety of other date calculations.

Date::SundayLetter calculates the Sunday letter for a particular
year. (The simplified version is that this represents the number
of days from January 1 until the first Sunday of the year. It's
actually a little more interesting than that.)

Date::Chinese, although it is destined for better things, currently
tells you what animal this year is. You probably know what that
means if you've ever looked at your placemat in a Chinese restaurant.
Eventually, this will do more interesting things, like tell you when
New Year is, and do actual conversions from a Gregorian date to the
full Chinese date. Unicode assistance requested.

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