DateTime::Calendar::Julian(3)

NAME
DateTime::Calendar::Julian - Dates in the Julian calendar

SYNOPSIS
  use DateTime::Calendar::Julian;

  $dt = DateTime::Calendar::Julian->new( year  => 964,
                                         month => 10,
                                         day   => 16,
                                       );

  # convert Julian->Gregorian...

  $dtgreg = DateTime->from_object( object => $dt );
  print $dtgreg->datetime;  # prints '0964-10-21T00:00:00'

  # ... and back again

  $dtjul = DateTime::Calendar::Julian->from_object( object => $dtgreg );
  print $dtjul->datetime;  # prints '0964-10-16J00:00:00'

DESCRIPTION
DateTime::Calendar::Julian implements the Julian Calendar. This module implements all methods of DateTime; see the DateTime(3) manpage for all methods.

METHODS
This module implements one additional method besides the ones from DateTime, and changes the output of one other method.

•   gregorian_deviation

    Returns the difference in days between the Gregorian and the Julian calendar.

•   datetime

    This method is now equivalent to:

      $dt->ymd('-') . 'J' . $dt->hms(:)

BACKGROUND
The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46BC. It featured a twelve-month year of 365 days, with a leap year in February every fourth year. This calendar was adopted by the Christian church in 325AD. Around 532AD, Dionysius Exiguus moved the starting point of the Julian calendar to the calculated moment of birth of Jesus Christ. Apart from differing opinions about the start of the year (often January 1st, but also Christmas, Easter, March 25th and other dates), this calendar remained unchanged until the calendar reform of pope Gregory XIII in 1582. Some backward countries, however, used the Julian calendar until the 18th century or later.

This module uses the proleptic Julian calendar for years before 532AD, or even 46BC. This means that dates are calculated as if this calendar had existed unchanged from the beginning of time. The assumption is made that January 1st is the first day of the year.

Note that BC years are given as negative numbers, with 0 denoting the year 1BC (there was no year 0AD!), -1 the year 2BC, etc.

SUPPORT
Support for this module is provided via the datetime@perl.org email list. See http://lists.perl.org/ for more details.

AUTHOR
Eugene van der Pijll <pijll@gmx.net>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2003 Eugene van der Pijll. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO
DateTime

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