NAME

Date::Calendar::Gregorian - Extending the core class 'Date' with strftime and conversions with other calendars

SYNOPSIS

Here are two ways of printing the date 2020-04-05 in French.

First, without Date::Calendar::Gregorian

use Date::Names;
use Date::Calendar::Strftime;

my Date        $date   .= new('2020-04-05');
my Date::Names $locale .= new(lang => 'fr');

my $day   = $locale.dow($date.day-of-week);
my $month = $locale.mon($date.month);
$date does Date::Calendar::Strftime;

say $date.strftime("$day %d $month %Y");
# --> dimanche 05 avril 2020

Second, with Date::Calendar::Gregorian

use Date::Calendar::Gregorian;
my  Date::Calendar::Gregorian $date .= new('2020-04-05', locale => 'fr');
say $date.strftime("%A %d %B %Y");
# --> dimanche 05 avril 2020

INSTALLATION

zef install Date::Calendar::Gregorian

git clone https://github.com/jforget/raku-Date-Calendar-Gregorian.git
cd raku-Date-Calendar-Gregorian
zef install .

DESCRIPTION

Date::Calendar::Gregorian is a child class to the core class 'Date', to extend it with the string-generation method strftime and with the conversion methods new-from-date and to-date.

AUTHOR

Jean Forget

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.