0.000_013	2017-02-21	T. R. Wyant
    Rename __*_short() to __*_abbr(). No idea why I thought _short was
    better.

    Update README and module front matter.

    Expose __valid_date_class() This is the validator for an object
    passed as a date to __format(). It is exposed for troubleshooting
    purposes.

    Add tools/valid-date-class.  This is an author's diagnostic to
    determine whether the perl package being analyzed has the methods it
    needs to be passed to the __format() subroutine as a date object.

0.000_012	2017-02-20	T. R. Wyant
    NOT released to CPAN

    Modify methods expected by __format in date object. Instead of
    year(), month(), day(), holiday(), and weekday() (or day_of_week()),
    it is year_number(), etcetera. The motiviation was the equivocation
    between Date::Tolkien::Shire and
    DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire on some of these.

    Ditch the locale code as a bad idea.  Instead, go with accented()
    and traditional() methods on the date object used by __format().

    Fix minor bug in holiday handling in __format().

0.000_011	2017-02-18	T. R. Wyant
    NOT released to CPAN

    Recode the building of name-to-number hashes so that no
    hand-tweaking is needed.

    __year_day_to_rata_die() now takes negative years.  The validation
    mistakenly required non-negative years.

0.000_010	2017-02-18	T. R. Wyant
    NOT released to CPAN

    Redo __format() in terms of opaque Locale object.

    Add __locale() to manufacture this object.

    Correct accents in on_date_accented() text.

    Remove formats '%EA', '%Ea', and '%ED'.  On thinking about it, these
    seem to me to be more a locale thing, though how I will get locales
    into this package is beyond me at the moment.

    Add rudimentary argument validation. The incentive is that I might
    want to bolt on a locale system to
    DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire, and that might (or might not)
    involve adding arguments. So I want to flag extra arguments now, to
    reserve them for myself later.

0.000_009	2017-02-15	T. R. Wyant
    Ditch special-case __format() code for '%N'.  With the
    implementation of Glibc field widths, this can now just go through
    normal numeric processing, and (I hope) quash an error found by
    Andreas König's smoker.

    Converge __format() toward Glibc extensions:
    - Add user-specified field width.
    - Add '0', '_', and '-' padding flags.
    - Add '^' and '#' case-change flags.
    - Unrecognized specifications are left as-is, except for the actions
      of flags. So '%.' remains '%.', rather than becoming '.' as the
      BSD functionality would have it. And '%Ez' remains '%Ez' rather
      than being interpreted the same as '%z'. But '%^Ez' becomes
      '%^EZ', which looks like a bug to me, but that's what Glibc
      strftime() does.

    Use '%-e' in the implementation of '%Ex', to mimic better the
    historical output of (e.g.) Date::Tolkien::Shire->on_date().

    Add '%v' (OK, that's a BSD extension, but I could not resist).

0.000_008	2017-02-14	T. R. Wyant
    Change __format() format %ED to do __on_date_accented(). The
    previous functionality of %ED is obtained (for both %ED and %Ed) by
    putting %En before. This causes %ED and %Ed to add a leading "\n",
    but only if their result is defined.

    Have __format() interpret { month = >0, day => number } as being
    equivalent to { holiday => number }, when invoked with a hash rather
    than an object.

    Add eg/on-date option -accented, which gives you accented proper
    nouns.

0.000_007	2017-02-13	T. R. Wyant
    First CPAN release.

    Add __on_date_accented(). This subroutine wraps __on_date(), but
    returns proper nouns accented as they are in The Lord Of The Rings.

0.000_006	2017-02-10	T. R. Wyant
    Clean up eg/ scripts.

    Add __format format %ED, for on_date() support.  This is like %Ed,
    but a leading "\n" is added if the result is not null.  This means
    the usual on_date() method can be duplicated by __format( $date,
    '%Ex%n%ED' );

0.000_005	2017-02-08	T. R. Wyant
    Add __holiday_name_to_number() and __month_name_to_number().
    These convert a holiday name to a holiday number and a month name to a
    month number respectively. Numeric arguments are simply returned.
    Unrecognized arguments return 0.

    Remove creeping 5.8-isms, so that we actually work under 5.6.2.

0.000_004	2017-02-07	T. R. Wyant
    Correct __rata_die_to_year_day(). Also test it more exhaustively
    (if author) or at least in a more targeted manner (if not).

    Also correct GREGORIAN_RATA_DIE_TO_SHIRE, using a better-thought-out
    computation.

0.000_003	2017-02-06	T. R. Wyant
    Remove Shire-related constant from __year_day_to_rata_die() and
    __rata_die_to_year_day(). This way they can be used on any calendar
    having the Gregorian year-length rules.

    Added exportable manifest constant GREGORIAN_RATA_DIE_TO_SHIRE to
    convert from "true" (Gregorian-based) Rata Die to Shire Rata Die.

0.000_002	2017-02-06	T. R. Wyant
    Have subroutines return 0 or '' as appropriate (meaning, for legal
    dates to which they do not apply, e.g.  month-related stuff on a
    holiday).

    Simplify __format conversion code. This mostly means things like %m on a
    holiday producing '00', though it also means requiring a day_of_week()
    method on the object passed in. This method was added to the hash
    wrapper, implemented by constructing a {day_of_week} entry if one did
    not already exist.

0.000_001	2017-02-05	T. R. Wyant
    Initial version.