ROMANDATE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation ROMANDATE(1)NAMERomanDate - Print the Roman date corresponding to a given Christian
date.
SYNOPSISRomanDate [--args arg=value --args arg=value ...] [day month year]
OPTIONS
There is only one option, namely "args". This option can appears
multiple times, each time followed by a string in the form "arg=value".
arg, value pairs are those of the "as_string" method of the Date::Roman
class.
ARGUMENTS
"RomanDate" can be invoked either with exactly three arguments or with
none at all. In the first case, the argument must be numerical and are
interpreted as the day, month and year number respectively. In the
second case, the script prints the current date.
DESCRIPTION
This script is a utilization sample of Date::Roman. Given a Christian
date, it prints on standard out the corresponding date in the Roman
format (see the Date::Roman man page for more details about the Roman
calendar).
EXAMPLESRomanDate 19 7 1961
prints a.d. XIV Kal. Aug. MMDCCXIV AUC.
RomanDate--args words=complete --args auc=abbrev 19 7 1961
prints ante diem XIV Kalendas Augustas MMDCCXIV AUC
RomanDate
prints the current date in the Roman form.
AUTHOR
Leo Cacciari, aka TheHobbit <thehobbit@altern.org>
COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
This software is Copyright 2002 by Leo Cacciari. This software is free
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
the Perl Artistic License, either as stated in the enclosed LICENSE
file or (at your option) as given on the Perl home site:
http://www.perl.com/language/misc/Artistic.html
BUGS
I dont know if this qualify as a bug. Anyhow, the scripts oly accepts
dates in the format day month year.
SEE ALSO
The Date::Roman man page.
v. 1.06 a.d. XI Kal. Mai. MMDCCLV AUC ROMANDATE(1)
