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ROMANDATE(1)          User Contributed Perl Documentation         ROMANDATE(1)


NAME

       RomanDate - Print the Roman date corresponding to a given Christian
       date.


SYNOPSIS

         RomanDate [--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).


EXAMPLES

         RomanDate 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)

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