package DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire; use 5.008004; use strict; use warnings; use Carp (); use Date::Tolkien::Shire::Data 0.001 qw{ __date_to_day_of_year __day_of_week __day_of_year_to_date __format __holiday_name __holiday_abbr __holiday_name_to_number __is_leap_year __month_name __month_abbr __month_name_to_number __quarter __quarter_name __quarter_abbr __rata_die_to_year_day __trad_weekday_name __trad_weekday_abbr __week_of_year __weekday_name __weekday_abbr __year_day_to_rata_die GREGORIAN_RATA_DIE_TO_SHIRE }; use DateTime 0.14; use DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration; use DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Types (); use Params::ValidationCompiler 0.13 (); # This Conan The Barbarian-style import is because I am reluctant to use # any magic more subtle than I myself posess; to wit # namespace::autoclean. *__t = \&DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Types::t; our $VERSION = '0.902_01'; use constant DAY_NUMBER_MIDYEARS_DAY => 183; use constant HASH_REF => ref {}; my @delegate_to_dt = qw( hour minute second nanosecond locale ); # This assumes all the values in the info hashref are valid, and doesn't # do validation However, the day and month parameters will be given # defaults if not present sub _recalc_DateTime { my ($self, %dt_args) = @_; my $shire_rd = __year_day_to_rata_die( $self->{year}, __date_to_day_of_year( $self->{year}, $self->{month}, $self->{day} || $self->{holiday}, ), ); # Because the leap year algorithm is the same in both calendars, I # can use __rata_die_to_year_day() on the Gregorian Rata Die day. ( $dt_args{year}, $dt_args{day_of_year} ) = __rata_die_to_year_day( $shire_rd - GREGORIAN_RATA_DIE_TO_SHIRE ); # We may be calling this because we have fiddled with the Shire date # and need to preserve stuff that is maintained by the embedded # DateTime object. So if we actually have said object, preserve # everything not explicitly specified. if ( $self->{dt} ) { foreach my $name ( @delegate_to_dt ) { defined $dt_args{$name} or $dt_args{$name} = $self->{dt}->$name(); } } $self->{dt} = DateTime->from_day_of_year( %dt_args ); return; } sub _recalc_Shire { my ( $self ) = @_; my $greg_rd = ( $self->local_rd_values() )[0]; my ( $year, $day_of_year ) = __rata_die_to_year_day( $greg_rd + GREGORIAN_RATA_DIE_TO_SHIRE ); my ( $month, $day ) = __day_of_year_to_date( $year, $day_of_year ); $self->{year} = $year; $self->{leapyear} = __is_leap_year( $year ); $self->{wday} = __day_of_week( $month, $day ); if ( $month ) { $self->{month} = $month; $self->{day} = $day; $self->{holiday} = 0; } else { $self->{holiday} = $day; $self->{month} = $self->{day} = 0; } $self->{recalc} = 0; return; } # Constructors { my $validator = Params::ValidationCompiler::validation_for( name => '_validation_for_new', name_is_optional => 1, params => { year => { type => __t( 'Year' ), }, month => { type => __t( 'Month' ), optional => 1, }, day => { type => __t( 'DayOfMonth' ), optional => 1, }, holiday => { type => __t( 'Holiday' ), optional => 1, }, hour => { type => __t( 'Hour' ), default => 0, }, minute => { type => __t( 'Minute' ), default => 0, }, second => { type => __t( 'Second' ), default => 0, }, nanosecond => { type => __t( 'Nanosecond' ), default => 0, }, time_zone => { type => __t( 'TimeZone' ), optional => 1, }, locale => { type => __t( 'Locale' ), optional => 1, }, formatter => { type => __t( 'Formatter' ), optional => 1, }, accented => { type => __t( 'Bool' ), optional => 1, }, traditional => { type => __t( 'Bool' ), optional => 1, }, }, ); sub new { my ( $class, @args ) = @_; my %my_arg = $validator->( @args ); _check_date( \%my_arg ); return $class->_new( %my_arg ); } } # For internal use only - no validation. sub _new { my ( $class, %my_arg ) = @_; if ( $my_arg{month} ) { $my_arg{month} = __month_name_to_number( $my_arg{month} ); $my_arg{day} ||= 1; $my_arg{holiday} = 0; } else { $my_arg{holiday} ||= $my_arg{day} || 1; $my_arg{holiday} = __holiday_name_to_number( $my_arg{holiday} ); $my_arg{month} = $my_arg{day} = 0; } $my_arg{leapyear} = __is_leap_year( $my_arg{year} ); $my_arg{wday} = __day_of_week( $my_arg{month}, $my_arg{day} || $my_arg{holiday}, ); my %dt_arg; foreach my $key ( @delegate_to_dt ) { defined $my_arg{$key} and $dt_arg{$key} = delete $my_arg{$key}; } my $self = bless \%my_arg, $class; $self->_recalc_DateTime(%dt_arg); return $self; } { my $validator = Params::ValidationCompiler::validation_for( name => '_validation_for_output_options', name_is_optional => 1, params => { accented => { type => __t( 'Bool' ), optional => 1, }, traditional => { type => __t( 'Bool' ), optional => 1, }, }, ); # sub from_epoch; sub now; sub today; foreach my $method ( qw{ from_epoch now today } ) { no strict qw{ refs }; *$method = sub { my ( $class, %arg ) = @_; my %my_arg; exists $my_arg{$_} and $my_arg{$_} = delete $arg{$_} for qw{ accented traditional }; %my_arg = $validator->( %my_arg ); return bless { dt => DateTime->$method( %arg ), recalc => 1, %my_arg, }, $class; } } sub from_object { my ( $class, %arg ) = @_; my %my_arg; my $shire_object = $arg{object} && eval { $arg{object}->isa( __PACKAGE__ ) }; foreach my $name ( qw{ accented traditional } ) { if ( exists $arg{$name} ) { $my_arg{$name} = delete $arg{$name}; } elsif ( $shire_object ) { $my_arg{$name} = $arg{object}->$name(); } } %my_arg = $validator->( %my_arg ); my $self = bless { dt => DateTime->from_object( %arg ), recalc => 1, %my_arg, }, $class; return $self; } } sub last_day_of_month { my ( $class, %arg ) = @_; $arg{day} = 30; # The shire calendar is nice this way return $class->new( %arg ); } { my $validator = Params::ValidationCompiler::validation_for( name => '_validation_for_from_day_of_year', name_is_optional => 1, params => { year => { type => __t( 'Year' ), }, day_of_year => { type => __t( 'DayOfYear' ), }, hour => { type => __t( 'Hour' ), default => 0, }, minute => { type => __t( 'Minute' ), default => 0, }, second => { type => __t( 'Second' ), default => 0, }, nanosecond => { type => __t( 'Nanosecond' ), default => 0, }, time_zone => { type => __t( 'TimeZone' ), optional => 1, }, locale => { type => __t( 'Locale' ), optional => 1, }, formatter => { type => __t( 'Formatter' ), optional => 1, }, accented => { type => __t( 'Bool' ), optional => 1, }, traditional => { type => __t( 'Bool' ), optional => 1, }, }, ); sub from_day_of_year { my ( $class, @args ) = @_; my %arg = $validator->( @args ); ( $arg{month}, $arg{day} ) = __day_of_year_to_date( $arg{year}, delete $arg{day_of_year}, ); return $class->_new( %arg ); } } sub now_local { my ( $class, %arg ) = @_; my %dt_arg; @dt_arg{ qw< second minute hour day month year > } = localtime; $dt_arg{month} += 1; $dt_arg{year} += 1900; return $class->from_object( %arg, object => DateTime->new( %dt_arg ) ); } sub calendar_name { return 'Shire'; } sub clone { my ( $self ) = @_; my $clone = { %{ $self } }; $clone->{dt} = $self->{dt}->clone(); return bless $clone, ref $self; } # Get methods sub year { my $self = shift; $self->_recalc_Shire if $self->{recalc}; return $self->{year}; } # end sub year sub month { my $self = shift; $self->_recalc_Shire if $self->{recalc}; return $self->{month}; } # end sub month *mon = \&month; # sub mon; sub month_name { my ( $self ) = @_; return __month_name( $self->month() ); } sub month_abbr { my ( $self ) = @_; return __month_abbr( $self->month() ); } sub day_of_month { my $self = shift; $self->_recalc_Shire if $self->{recalc}; return $self->{day}; } # end sub day_of_month *day = \&day_of_month; # sub day; *mday = \&day_of_month; # sub mday; sub day_of_week { my $self = shift; $self->_recalc_Shire if $self->{recalc}; return $self->{wday}; } # end sub day_of_week *wday = \&day_of_week; # sub wday; *dow = \&day_of_week; # sub dow; *local_day_of_week = \&day_of_week; # sub local_day_of_week; sub day_name { my ( $self ) = @_; return __weekday_name( $self->day_of_week() ); } sub day_name_trad { my ( $self ) = @_; return __trad_weekday_name( $self->day_of_week() ); } sub day_abbr { my ( $self ) = @_; return __weekday_abbr( $self->day_of_week() ); } sub day_abbr_trad { my ( $self ) = @_; return __trad_weekday_abbr( $self->day_of_week() ); } sub holiday { my ( $self ) = @_; $self->_recalc_Shire if $self->{recalc}; return $self->{holiday}; } sub holiday_name { my ( $self ) = @_; return __holiday_name( $self->holiday() ); } sub holiday_abbr { my ( $self ) = @_; return __holiday_abbr( $self->holiday() ); } sub is_leap_year { my $self = shift; $self->_recalc_Shire if $self->{recalc}; return $self->{leapyear}; } sub day_of_year { my ( $self ) = @_; $self->_recalc_Shire if $self->{recalc}; return __date_to_day_of_year( $self->{year}, $self->{month}, $self->{day} || $self->{holiday}, ); } *doy = \&day_of_year; # sub doy sub week { return ($_[0]->week_year, $_[0]->week_number); } *week_year = \&year; # sub week_year; the shire calendar is nice this way sub week_number { my $self = shift; # TODO re-implement in terms of __week_of_year my $yday = $self->day_of_year; DAY_NUMBER_MIDYEARS_DAY == $yday and return 0; DAY_NUMBER_MIDYEARS_DAY < $yday and --$yday; if ( $self->is_leap_year() ) { # In the following, DAY_NUMBER_MIDYEARS_DAY really refers to the # Ovelithe, because days greater than Midyear's day were # decremented above. DAY_NUMBER_MIDYEARS_DAY == $yday and return 0; DAY_NUMBER_MIDYEARS_DAY < $yday and --$yday; } return int( ( $yday - 1 ) / 7 ) + 1; } sub quarter { my ( $self ) = @_; return __quarter( $self->month(), $self->day() || $self->holiday() ); } sub quarter_name { my ( $self ) = @_; return __quarter_name( $self->quarter() ); } sub quarter_abbr { my ( $self ) = @_; return __quarter_abbr( $self->quarter() ); } sub day_of_quarter { my ( $self ) = @_; my $clone = $self->clone(); $clone->truncate( to => 'quarter' ); return ( $self->local_rd_values() )[0] - ( $clone->local_rd_values())[0] + 1; } # sub doq; *doq = \&day_of_quarter; sub am_or_pm { splice @_, 1, $#_, '%p'; goto &strftime; } sub era_abbr { return $_[0]->year() < 1 ? 'BSR' : 'SR'; } # deprecated in DateTime # *era = \&era_abbr; *christian_era = *secular_era = \&era_abbr; sub year_with_era { return join '', abs( $_[0]->ce_year() ), $_[0]->era_abbr(); } sub year_with_christian_era { return join '', abs( $_[0]->ce_year() ), $_[0]->christian_era(); } sub year_with_secular_era { return join '', abs( $_[0]->ce_year() ), $_[0]->secular_era(); } sub era_name { return $_[0]->year() < 1 ? 'Before Shire Reckoning' : 'Shire Reckoning'; } sub ce_year { my $year = $_[0]->year(); return $year > 0 ? $year : $year - 1; } sub ymd { my ( $self, $sep ) = @_; defined $sep or $sep = '-'; return $self->strftime( "%{{%Y$sep%m$sep%d||%Y$sep%Ee}}" ); } # sub date; *date = \&ymd; sub dmy { my ( $self, $sep ) = @_; defined $sep or $sep = '-'; return $self->strftime( "%{{%d$sep%m$sep%Y||%Ee$sep%Y}}" ); } sub mdy { my ( $self, $sep ) = @_; defined $sep or $sep = '-'; return $self->strftime( "%{{%m$sep%d$sep%Y||%Ee$sep%Y}}" ); } sub hms { my ( $self, $sep ) = @_; defined $sep or $sep = ':'; return $self->strftime( "%H$sep%M$sep%S" ); } # sub time; # The DateTime code says the following circumlocution prevents # overriding of CORE::time *DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::time = \&hms; sub iso8601 { return join 'S', map { $_[0]->$_() } qw{ ymd hms } } sub accented { return $_[0]->{accented} } sub traditional { return $_[0]->{traditional} } *datetime = \&iso8601; # sub datetime; # Set methods { my $validator = Params::ValidationCompiler::validation_for( name => '_validation_for_set', name_is_optional => 1, params => { year => { type => __t( 'Year' ), optional => 1, }, month => { type => __t( 'Month' ), optional => 1, }, day => { type => __t( 'DayOfMonth' ), optional => 1, }, holiday => { type => __t( 'Holiday' ), optional => 1, }, hour => { type => __t( 'Hour' ), optional => 1, }, minute => { type => __t( 'Minute' ), optional => 1, }, second => { type => __t( 'Second' ), optional => 1, }, nanosecond => { type => __t( 'Nanosecond' ), optional => 1, }, locale => { type => __t( 'Locale' ), optional => 1, }, accented => { type => __t( 'Bool' ), optional => 1, }, traditional => { type => __t( 'Bool' ), optional => 1, }, }, ); sub set { my ( $self, @args ) = @_; my %my_arg = $validator->( @args ); _check_date( \%my_arg ); $self->_recalc_Shire if $self->{recalc}; $my_arg{day} and not $my_arg{month} and not $self->{month} and _croak( 'Need to set month as well as day' ); if ( $my_arg{month} ) { $my_arg{day} ||= 1; $self->{month} = __month_name_to_number( $my_arg{month} ); $self->{holiday} = 0; } if ( $my_arg{holiday} ) { $self->{holiday} = __holiday_name_to_number( $my_arg{holiday} ); $self->{day} = $self->{month} = 0; } if ( $my_arg{day} ) { $self->{day} = $my_arg{day}; $self->{holiday} = 0; } foreach my $name ( qw{ year accented traditional } ) { defined $my_arg{$name} and $self->{$name} = $my_arg{$name}; } $self->{leapyear} = __is_leap_year( $self->{year} ); $self->{wday} = __day_of_week( $self->{month}, $self->{day} || $self->{holiday}, ); my %dt_args; foreach my $arg ( @delegate_to_dt ) { $dt_args{$arg} = $my_arg{$arg} if defined $my_arg{$arg}; } $self->_recalc_DateTime( %dt_args ); return $self; } } # sub set_year; sub set_month; sub set_day; sub set_holiday; # sub set_hour; sub set_minute; sub set_second; sub set_nanosecond; # sub set_accented; sub set_traditional; foreach my $attr ( qw{ year month day holiday hour minute second nanosecond accented traditional } ) { my $method = "set_$attr"; no strict qw{ refs }; *$method = sub { $_[0]->set( $attr => $_[1] ) }; } { my @midnight = ( hour => 0, minute => 0, second => 0, nanosecond => 0, ); my @quarter_start = ( undef, [ holiday => 1 ], [ month => 4, day => 1 ], [ holiday => 5 ], [ month => 10, day => 1 ], ); my %handler = ( year => sub { $_[0]->set( holiday => 1, @midnight, ); }, quarter => sub { my ( $self ) = @_; # This is an extension to the Shire calendar by Tom Wyant. # It has no textual justification whatsoever. Feel free to # pretend it does not exist. if ( my $quarter = $self->quarter() ) { # The start of a quarter is tricky since quarters 1 and # 3 start on holidays, so we just do a table lookup. $self->set( @{ $quarter_start[ $quarter ] }, @midnight, ); } else { # Since Midyear's day and the Overlithe are not part of # any quarter, we just truncate them to the nearest day. $self->{dt}->truncate( to => 'day' ); } }, month => sub { my ( $self ) = @_; if ( $self->{holiday} ) { # since holidays aren't in any month, this means we just # lop off any time $self->{dt}->truncate( to => 'day' ); } else { $self->set( day => 1, @midnight, ); } }, week => sub { my ( $self ) = @_; if ( $self->{wday} ) { # TODO we do not, at this point in the coding, have date # arithmetic. So we do it with rata die. my ( $year, $day_of_year ) = __rata_die_to_year_day( ( $self->local_rd_values() )[0] - $self->{wday} + 1 + GREGORIAN_RATA_DIE_TO_SHIRE ); my ( $month, $day ) = __day_of_year_to_date( $year, $day_of_year ); my %set_arg = ( year => $year, @midnight, ); if ( $month ) { @set_arg{ qw{ month day } } = ( $month, $day ); } else { $set_arg{holiday} = $day; } $self->set( %set_arg ); } else { $self->{dt}->truncate( to => 'day' ); } }, ); # Weeks in the Shire start on Sterday, but that's what 'week' gives # us. $handler{local_week} = $handler{week}; my $validator = Params::ValidationCompiler::validation_for( name => '_validation_for_truncate', name_is_optional => 1, params => { to => { type => __t( 'TruncationLevel' ), }, }, ); sub truncate : method { ## no critic (ProhibitBuiltInHomonyms) my ( $self, @args ) = @_; my %my_arg = $validator->( @args ); $self->_recalc_Shire if $self->{recalc}; if ( my $code = $handler{$my_arg{to}} ) { $code->( $self ); } else { # only time components will change, DateTime can handle it # fine on its own $self->{dt}->truncate( to => $my_arg{to} ); } return $self; } } sub set_time_zone { my ($self, $tz) = @_; $self->{dt}->set_time_zone($tz); $self->{recalc} = 1; # in case the day flips when the timezone changes return $self; } # The following two methods were lifted pretty much verbatim from # DateTime. The only changes were the guard against holidays (month == # 0) and the use of POSIX::floor() rather than int() or use integer; sub weekday_of_month { my ( $self ) = @_; $self->month() or return 0; return POSIX::floor( ( ( $_[0]->day - 1 ) / 7 ) + 1 ); } # ISO says that the first week of a year is the first week containing # a Thursday. Extending that says that the first week of the month is # the first week containing a Thursday. ICU agrees. # ISO does not really apply to the Shire calendar. This method is # algorithmically the same as the DateTime method, which amounts to # taking the first week of the year to be the first week containing a # Hevensday. We return nothing (undef in scalar context) on a holiday # because zero is a valid return (e.g. for 1 Rethe). -- TRW sub week_of_month { my ( $self ) = @_; $self->month() or return; my $hev = $self->day() + 4 - $self->day_of_week(); return POSIX::floor( ( $hev + 6 ) / 7 ); } sub strftime { my ( $self, @fmt ) = @_; return wantarray ? ( map { __format( $self, $_ ) } @fmt ) : __format( $self, $fmt[0] ); } # Arithmetic sub duration_class { return 'DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration'; } sub _make_duration { my ( $self, @arg ) = @_; 1 == @arg and _isa( $arg[0], $self->duration_class() ) and return $arg[0]; return $self->duration_class()->new( @arg ); } sub add { my ( $self, @arg ) = @_; return $self->add_duration( $self->_make_duration( @arg ) ); } { my $validate = Params::ValidationCompiler::validation_for( name => '_check_add_duration_params', name_is_optional => 1, params => [ { type => __t( 'Duration' ) }, ], ); sub add_duration { my ( $self, @arg ) = @_; my ( $dur ) = $validate->( @arg ); return $self->_add_duration( $dur ); } sub subtract_duration { my ( $self, @arg ) = @_; my ( $dur ) = $validate->( @arg ); return $self->_add_duration( $dur->inverse() ); } } { # The _offset arrays are accessed by # @xx_offset[$self->is_leap_year][$forward][$holiday]; my @month_offset = ( [ # Not a leap year [ 0, -2, -1, -2, 0, -3, -1 ], # Going backward [ 0, 1, 3, 2, 0, 1, 2 ], # Going forward ], [ # A leap year [ 0, -2, -1, -2, -3, -4, -1 ], # Going backward [ 0, 1, 4, 3, 2, 1, 2 ], # Going forward ], ); my @week_offset = ( # Note that we only use indices 3 & 4 [ # Not a leap year [ 0, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0 ], # Going backward [ 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0 ], # Going forward ], [ # A leap year [ 0, 0, 0, -1, -2, 0, 0 ], # Going backward [ 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0 ], # Going forward ], ); sub _add_duration { my ( $self, $dur ) = @_; # simple optimization (cribbed shamelessly from DateTime) $dur->is_zero() and return $self; my %delta = $dur->deltas(); # This bit isn't quite right since DateTime::Infinite::Future - # infinite duration should NaN (cribbed shamelessly from # DateTime) foreach my $val ( values %delta ) { my $inf; if ( $val == DateTime->INFINITY ) { $inf = DateTime::Infinite::Future->new; } elsif ( $val == DateTime->NEG_INFINITY ) { $inf = DateTime::Infinite::Past->new; } if ($inf) { %$self = %$inf; bless $self, ref $inf; return $self; } } $self->is_infinite() and return $self; if ( $delta{years} || $delta{months} || $delta{weeks} ) { my $forward = $dur->is_forward_mode(); my $holiday = $self->holiday(); my $leap = $self->is_leap_year(); my $orig_rd = my $shire_rd = ( $self->local_rd_values() )[0] + GREGORIAN_RATA_DIE_TO_SHIRE; if ( my $months = delete $delta{months} ) { $shire_rd += $month_offset[$leap][$forward][$holiday]; $holiday = 0; # No further adjustment needed my ( $year, $day_of_year ) = __rata_die_to_year_day( $shire_rd ); my ( $month, $day ) = __day_of_year_to_date( $year, $day_of_year ); $month += $months - 1; # now zero-based $year += POSIX::floor( $month / 12 ); $leap = __is_leap_year( $year ); $month = 1 + $month % 12; # now one-based again $day_of_year = __date_to_day_of_year( $year, $month, $day ); $shire_rd = __year_day_to_rata_die( $year, $day_of_year ); } if ( my $weeks = delete $delta{weeks} ) { $shire_rd += $week_offset[$leap][$forward][$holiday]; my ( $year, $day_of_year ) = __rata_die_to_year_day( $shire_rd ); my ( $month, $day ) = __day_of_year_to_date( $year, $day_of_year ); my $week = __week_of_year( $month, $day ); my $day_of_week = __day_of_week( $month, $day ); $week += $weeks - 1; # now zero-based $year += POSIX::floor( $week / 52 ); $leap = __is_leap_year( $year ); $week = $week % 52; $day_of_year = $week * 7 + $day_of_week; $week > 25 # Still zero-based, remember and $day_of_year += $leap + 1; $shire_rd = __year_day_to_rata_die( $year, $day_of_year ); } if ( my $years = delete $delta{years} ) { my ( $year, $day_of_year ) = __rata_die_to_year_day( $shire_rd ); my ( $month, $day ) = __day_of_year_to_date( $year, $day_of_year ); my $y = $year + $years; my $l = __is_leap_year( $y ); # If we're leap year day and the new year is not a leap # year we have to adjust. if ( ! $l && ! $month && $day == 4 ) { $day += $forward ? 1 : -1; } $day_of_year = __date_to_day_of_year( $y, $month, $day); $shire_rd = __year_day_to_rata_die( $y, $day_of_year ); $leap = $l; $holiday = $month ? 0 : $day; } $delta{days} += $shire_rd - $orig_rd; } if ( grep { $delta{$_} } qw{ days minutes seconds nanoseconds } ) { $self->{dt}->add( %delta ); $self->{recalc} = 1; } return $self; } } sub subtract { my ( $self, @arg ) = @_; return $self->subtract_duration( $self->_make_duration( @arg ) ); } sub subtract_datetime { my ( $left, $right ) = @_; _isa( $right, __PACKAGE__ ) or Carp::croak( 'Operand must be a ', __PACKAGE__ ); my %delta = $left->{dt}->subtract_datetime( $right->{dt} )->deltas(); $delta{years} = $left->year() - $right->year(); if ( $left->month() && $right->month() ) { $delta{months} = $left->month() - $right->month(); $delta{days} = $left->day() - $right->day(); } else { $delta{days} = $left->day_of_year() - $right->day_of_year(); } return $left->duration_class()->new( %delta ); } foreach my $method ( qw{ subtract_datetime_absolute delta_days delta_md delta_ms } ) { no strict qw{ refs }; *$method = sub { my ( $left, $right ) = @_; _isa( $right, __PACKAGE__ ) and $right = $right->{dt}; _isa( $right, 'DateTime' ) or Carp::croak( 'Operand must be a DateTime or a ', __PACKAGE__ ); return $left->duration_class()->new( $left->{dt}->$method( $right )->deltas() ); }; } # Comparison overloads come with DateTime. Stringify will be our own use overload '<=>' => \&_overload_space_ship, 'cmp' => \&_overload_cmp, '""' => \&_stringify, ; sub _overload_space_ship { defined $_[1] or return undef; ## no critic (ProhibitExplicitReturnUndef) return $_[2] ? - $_[0]->compare( $_[1] ) : $_[0]->compare( $_[1] ); } sub _overload_cmp { local $@ = undef; eval { $_[1]->can( 'utc_rd_values' ) } and goto &_overload_space_ship; return ( "$_[0]" cmp "$_[1]" ) * ( $_[2] ? -1 : 1 ); } sub _check_date { my ( $arg ) = @_; if ( $arg->{holiday} ) { $arg->{month} and _croak( 'May not specify both holiday and month' ); $arg->{day} and _croak( 'May not specify both holiday and day' ); } return; } sub _stringify { splice @_, 1, $#_, '%Ex'; goto &strftime; } sub on_date { splice @_, 1, $#_, '%Ex%n%En%Ed'; goto &strftime; } # sub hour; sub minute; sub min; sub second; sub sec; sub nanosecond; # sub hour_1; sub hour_12; sub hour_12_0; # sub fractional_second; sub millisecond; sub microsecond; # sub time_zone; sub time_zone_long_name; sub time_zone_short_name # sub epoch; sub hires_epoch; sub utc_rd_values; sub utc_rd_as_seconds; # sub set_formatter; sub offset; sub locale; sub set_locale; # sub mjd; sub jd; # sub is_dst; sub is_finite; sub is_infinite; sub leap_seconds; # sub formatter; sub utc_year; # sub local_rd_as_seconds; sub local_rd_values; foreach my $method ( qw{ hour minute min second sec nanosecond hour_1 hour_12 hour_12_0 fractional_second millisecond microsecond time_zone time_zone_long_name time_zone_short_name epoch hires_epoch utc_rd_values utc_rd_as_seconds set_formatter offset locale set_locale mjd jd is_dst is_finite is_infinite leap_seconds formatter utc_year local_rd_as_seconds local_rd_values } ) { no strict qw{ refs }; *$method = sub { my ( $self, @arg ) = @_; return $self->{dt}->$method( @arg ) }; } *DefaultLocale = \&DateTime::DefaultLocale; # These assume the corresponding DateTime routines only use the public # interface. The last time I assumed that, second thoughts made me # re-implement. We'll see how long this code stands. Though it may stand # for a while, since the documentation also says that all that is needed # is a utc_rd_values() method, which we have. sub compare { ref $_[0] or shift @_; return DateTime->compare( @_ ); } sub compare_ignore_floating { ref $_[0] or shift @_; return DateTime->compare_ignore_floating( @_ ); } # NOTE: I do not feel the need to load Storable, because if these are # being called it has already been loaded. Either that or somebody is # mucking around in the internals, in which case they are on their own. sub STORABLE_freeze { my ( $self ) = @_; return Storable::freeze( { accented => $self->{accented}, traditional => $self->{traditional}, }, ), $self->{dt}, }; sub STORABLE_thaw { my ( $self, undef, $serialized, $dt ) = @_; %{ $self } = %{ Storable::thaw( $serialized ) }; $self->{dt} = $dt; $self->{recalc} = 1; return $self; } # Date::Tolkien::Shire::Data::__format() interface. *__fmt_shire_year = \&year; # sub __fmt_shire_year *__fmt_shire_month = \&month; # sub __fmt_shire_month; sub __fmt_shire_day { my ( $self ) = @_; $self->_recalc_Shire if $self->{recalc}; return $self->{day} || $self->{holiday}; } *__fmt_shire_day_of_week = \&day_of_week; # sub __fmt_shire_day_of_week *__fmt_shire_hour = \&hour; # sub __fmt_shire_hour; *__fmt_shire_minute = \&minute; # sub __fmt_shire_minute; *__fmt_shire_second = \&second; # sub __fmt_shire_second; *__fmt_shire_nanosecond = \&nanosecond; # sub __fmt_shire_nanosecond; *__fmt_shire_epoch = \&epoch; # sub __fmt_shire_epoch; *__fmt_shire_zone_offset = \&offset; # sub __fmt_shire_zone_offset; *__fmt_shire_zone_name = \&time_zone_short_name; # sub __fmt_shire_zone_name; *__fmt_shire_accented = \&accented; # sub __fmt_shire_accented; *__fmt_shire_traditional = \&traditional; # sub __fmt_shire_traditional # sub day_of_month_0; sub day_0; sub mday_0; # sub day_of_year_0; sub doy_0; # sub quarter_0; sub day_of_quarter_0; sub doq_0; # sub day_of_week_0; sub wday_0; sub dow_0; # sub month_0; sub mon_0; foreach my $method ( qw{ day_of_month day mday day_of_year doy quarter day_of_quarter doq day_of_week wday dow month mon } ) { my $method_0 = $method . '_0'; no strict qw{ refs }; *$method_0 = sub { $_[0]->$method() - 1 }; } sub _croak { my @msg = @_; Carp::croak( __PACKAGE__ . ": @msg" ); } sub _isa { return Scalar::Util::blessed( $_[0] ) && $_[0]->isa( $_[1] ) } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire - DateTime implementation of the Shire calendar. =head1 SYNOPSIS use DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire; # Constructors my $shire = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->new(year => 1419, month => 'Rethe', day => 25); my $shire = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->new(year => 1419, month => 3, day => 25); my $shire = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->new(year => 1419, holiday => '2 Lithe'); my $shire = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->from_epoch( epoch = $time); my $shire = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->today; # same as from_epoch(epoch = time()); my $shire = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->from_object( object => $some_other_DateTime_object); my $shire = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->from_day_of_year( year => 1420, day_of_year => 182); my $shire2 = $shire->clone; # Accessors $year = $shire->year; $month = $shire->month; # 1 - 12, or 0 on a holiday $month_name = $shire->month_name; $day = $shire->day; # 1 - 30, or 0 on a holiday $dow = $shire->day_of_week; # 1 - 7, or 0 on certain holidays $day_name = $shire->day_name; $holiday = $shire->holiday; $holiday_name = $shire->holiday_name; $leap = $shire->is_leap_year; $time = $shire->epoch; @rd = $shire->utc_rd_values; # Set Methods $shire->set(year => 7463, month => 5, day => 3); $shire->set(year => 7463, holiday => 6); $shire->truncate(to => 'month'); # Comparisons $shire < $shire2; $shire == $shire2; # Strings print "$shire1\n"; # Prints Sunday 25 Rethe 1419 # On this date in history print $shire->on_date; =head1 DESCRIPTION Implementation of the calendar used by the hobbits in J.R.R. Tolkien's exceptional novel The Lord of The Rings, as described in Appendix D of that book (except where noted). The calendar has 12 months, each with 30 days, and 5 holidays that are not part of any month. A sixth holiday, Overlithe, is added on leap years. The holiday Midyear's Day (and the Overlithe on a leap year) is not part of any week, which means that the year always starts on Sterday. This module is a follow-on to the L<Date::Tolkien::Shire|Date::Tolkien::Shire> module, and is rewritten to support Dave Rolsky and company's L<DateTime|DateTime> module. The DateTime module must be installed for this module to work. This module provides support for most L<DateTime|DateTime> functionality, with the known exception of C<format_cldr()>, which may be added later. Support for L<strftime()|/strftime> comes from L<Date::Tolkien::Shire::Data|Date::Tolkien::Shire::Data>, and you should see the documentation for that module for the details of the formatting codes. Some assumptions have had to be made on how the hobbits represent time. We have references to (e.g.) "nine o'clock" (in the morning), which seem to imply they start the day at midnight. But there appears to be nothing to say whether they used a 12- or 24-hour clock. Default time formats (say, '%X') use a 12-hour clock because that is the English system and Tolkien did not specify anything to the contrary. Calendar quarters are not mentioned at all in any of Tolkien's writings (that I can find -- Wyant), but are part of the L<DateTime|DateTime> interface. This package implements a quarter as being exactly 13 weeks, with Midyear's day and Overlithe not being part of any quarter, on no better justification than that the present author thinks that is consistent with the Shire's approach to horology. =head1 METHODS Most of these methods mimic their corresponding DateTime methods in functionality. For additional information on these methods, see the DateTime documentation. =head2 Constructors =head3 new my $dt_ring = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->new( year => 1419, month => 3, day => 25, ); my $dt_aa = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->new( year => 1419, holiday => 3, # Midyear's day ); This method takes a year, month, and day parameter, or a year and holiday parameter. The year can be any value. The month can be specified with a string giving the name of the month (the same string that would be returned by month_name, with the first letter capitalized and the rest in lower case) or by giving the numerical value for the month, between 1 and 12. The day should always be between 1 and 30. If a holiday is given instead of a day and month, it should be the name of the holiday as returned by holiday_name (with the first letter of each word capitalized) or a value between 1 and 6. The 1 through 6 numbers map to holidays as follows: 1 => 2 Yule 2 => 1 Lithe 3 => Midyear's Day 4 => Overlithe # Leap years only 5 => 2 Lithe 6 => 1 Yule The C<new()> method will also take parameters for hour, minute, second, nanosecond, time_zone and locale. If given, these parameters will be stored in case the object is converted to another class that makes use of these attributes. Additionally, parameters C<accented> and C<traditional> control the form of C<on_date()> text (accented or not) and week day names (traditional or common) generated. These must be C<undef>, C<''>, or C<0> (for false) or C<1> (for true). If a day is not given, it will default to 1. If neither a day or month is given, the date will default to 2 Yule, the first day of the year. =head3 from_epoch $dts = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->from_epoch( epoch => time, ... ); Same as in DateTime, but you can also specify parameters C<accented> and C<traditional> (see L<new()|/new>). =head3 now $dts = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->now( ... ); Same as in DateTime, but you can also specify parameters C<accented> and C<traditional> (see L<new()|/new>). Note that this is equivalent to from_epoch( epoch => time() ); and produces an object whose time zone is C<UTC>. =head3 now_local $dts = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->now_local( ... ); This static method creates a new object set to the current local time. Under the hood it just calls the C<localtime()> built-in, and then calls L<new()|/new> with the results. Unlike L<now()|/now>, this method produces an object whose zone is C<floating>. =head3 today $dts = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->today( ... ); Same as in DateTime, but you can also specify parameters C<accented> and C<traditional> (see L<new()|/new>). =head3 from_object $dts = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->from_object( object => $object, ... ); Same as in DateTime, but you can also specify parameters C<accented> and C<traditional> (see L<new()|/new>). Takes any other DateTime calendar object and converts it to a DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire object. =head3 last_day_of_month $dts = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->last_day_of_month( year => 1419, month => 3, ... ); Same as in DateTime. Like the C<new()> constructor, but it does not take a day parameter. Instead, the day is set to 30, which is the last day of any month in the shire calendar. A holiday parameter should not be used with this method. Use L<new()|/new> instead. =head3 from_day_of_year $dts = DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->from_day_of_year( year => 1419, day_of_year => 86, ... ); Same as in DateTime. Gets the date from the given year and day of year, both of which must be given. Hour, minute, second, time_zone, etc. parameters may also be given, and will be passed to the underlying DateTime object, just like in C<new()>. =head3 clone $dts2 = $dts->clone(); Creates a new Shire object that is the same date (and underlying time) as the calling object. =head2 "Get" Methods =head3 calendar_name print $dts->calendar_name(), "\n"; Returns C<'Shire'>. =head3 year print 'Year: ', $dts->year(), "\n"; Returns the year. =head3 month print 'Month: ', $dts->month(), "\n"; Returns the month number, from 1 to 12. If the date is a holiday, a 0 is returned for the month. =head3 mon Synonym for L<month()|/month>. =head3 month_name print 'Month name: ', $dts->month_name(), "\n"; Returns the name of the month. If the date is a holiday, an empty string is returned. =head3 day_of_month print 'Day of month: ', $dts->day_of_month(), "\n"; Returns the day of the current month, from 1 to 30. If the date is a holiday, 0 is returned. =head3 day Synonym for L<day_of_month()|/day_of_month>. =head3 mday Synonym for L<day_of_month()|/day_of_month>. =head3 day_of_week print 'Day of week: ', $dts->day_of_week(), "\n"; Returns the day of the week from 1 to 7. If the day is not part of any week (Midyear's Day or the Overlithe), 0 is returned. =head3 wday Synonym for L<day_of_week|/day_of_week>. =head3 dow Synonym for L<day_of_week|/day_of_week>. =head3 day_name print 'Common name of day of week: ', $dts->day_name(), "\n"; Returns the common name of the day of the week, or an empty string if the day is not part of any week. This method is not affected by the L<traditional()|/traditional> setting, for historical reasons. =head3 day_name_trad print 'Traditional name of day of week: ', $dts->day_name_trad(), "\n"; Returns the common name of the day of the week, or an empty string if the day is not part of any week. This method is not affected by the L<traditional()|/traditional> setting, for historical reasons. =head3 day_abbr print 'Common abbreviation of day of week: ', $dts->day_abbr(), "\n"; Returns the common abbreviation of the day of the week, or an empty string if the day is not part of any week. This method is not affected by the L<traditional()|/traditional> setting, for consistency with L<day_name()|/day_name>. =head3 day_abbr_trad print 'Traditional abbreviation of day of week: ', $dts->day_abbr_trad(), "\n"; Returns the traditional abbreviation of the day of the week, or an empty string if the day is not part of any week. This method is not affected by the L<traditional()|/traditional> setting, for consistency with L<day_name_trad()|/day_name_trad>. =head3 day_of_year print 'Day of year: ', $dts->day_of_year(), "\n"; Returns the day of the year, from 1 to 366 =head3 doy Synonym for L<day_of_year()|/day_of_year>. =head3 holiday print 'Holiday number: ', $dts->holiday(), "\n"; Returns the holiday number (given in the description of the L<new()|/new> constructor). If the day is not a holiday, 0 is returned. =head3 holiday_name print 'Holiday name: ', $dts->holiday_name(), "\n"; Returns the name of the holiday. If the day is not a holiday, an empty string is returned. =head3 holiday_abbr print 'Holiday abbreviation: ', $dts->holiday_abbr(), "\n"; Returns the abbreviation of the holiday. If the day is not a holiday, an empty string is returned. =head3 is_leap_year my @ly = ( 'is not', 'is' ); printf "%d %s a leap year\n", $dts->year(), $ly[ $dts->is_leap_year() ]; Returns 1 if the year is a leap year, and 0 otherwise. Leap years are given the same rule as the Gregorian calendar. Every four years is a leap year, except the first year of the century, which is not a leap year. However, every fourth century (400 years), the first year of the century is a leap year (every 4, except every 100, except every 400). This is a slight change from the calendar described in Appendix D, which uses the rule of once every 4 years, except every 100 years (the same as in the Julian calendar). Given some uncertainty about how many years have passed since the time in Lord of the Rings (see note below), and the expectations of most people that the years match up with what they're used to, I have changed this rule for this implementation. However, this does mean that this calendar implementation is not strictly that described in Appendix D. =head3 week_year print 'The week year is ', $dts->week_year(), "\n"; This is always the same as the year in the shire calendar, but is present for compatibility with other DateTime objects. =head3 week_number print 'The week number is ', $dts->week_number(), "\n"; Returns the week of the year, or C<0> for days that are not part of any week: Midyear's day and the Overlithe. =head3 week printf "Year %d; Week number %d\n", $dts->week(); Returns a two element array, where the first is the week_year and the latter is the week_number. =head3 weekday_of_month Same as L<DateTime|DateTime>, but returns C<0> for a holiday. =head3 week_of_month Same as L<DateTime|DateTime>, but returns nothing (C<undef> in scalar context) for a holiday. The return for a holiday can not be C<0>, because this is a valid return, e.g. for 1 Rethe. =head3 epoch print scalar gmtime $dts->epoch(), "UT\n"; Returns the epoch of the given object, just like in DateTime. =head3 hires_epoch Returns the epoch as a floating point number, with the fractional portion for fractional seconds. Functions the same as in DateTime. =head3 quarter Returns the number of the quarter the day is in, in the range 1 to 4. If the day is part of no quarter (Midyear's day and the Overlithe), returns 0. There is no textual justification for quarters, but they are in the L<DateTime|DateTime> interface, so I rationalized the concept the same way the Shire calendar rationalizes weeks. If you are not interested in non-canonical functionality, please ignore anything involving quarters. =head3 quarter_0 Returns the number of the quarter the day is in, in the range 0 to 3. If the day is part of no quarter (Midyear's day and the Overlithe), returns -1. =head3 quarter_name Returns the name of the quarter. =head3 quarter_abbr Returns the abbreviation of the quarter. =head3 day_of_quarter Returns the day of the date in the quarter, in the range 1 to 91. If the day is Midyear's day or the Overlithe, you get 1. =head3 era_name Returns either C<'Shire Reckoning'> if the year is positive, or C<'Before Shire Reckoning'> otherwise. =head3 era_abbr Returns either C<'SR'> if the year is positive, or C<'BSR'> otherwise. =head3 christian_era This really does not apply to the Shire calendar, but it is part of the L<DateTime|DateTime> interface. Despite its name, it returns the same thing that L<era_abbr()|/era_abbr> does. =head3 secular_era Returns the same thing L<era_abbr()|/era_abbr> does. =head3 utc_rd_values Returns the UTC rata die days, seconds, and nanoseconds. Ignores fractional seconds. This is the standard method used by other methods to convert the shire calendar to other calendars. See the DateTime documentation for more information. =head3 utc_rd_as_seconds Returns the UTC rata die days entirely as seconds. =head3 on_date Returns the current day, with day of week if present, and with all names in full. If the day has some events that transpired on it (as defined in Appendix B of the Lord of the Rings), those events are appended. This can be fun to put in a F<.bashrc> or F<.cshrc>. Try perl -MDateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire -le 'print DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire->now->on_date;' =head3 iso8601 This is not, of course, a true ISO-8601 implementation. The differences are that holidays are represented by their abbreviations (e.g. C<'1419-Myd'>, and that the date and time are separated by the letter C<'S'>, not C<'T'>. =head3 strftime print $dts->strftime( '%Ex%n' ); This is a re-implementation imported from L<Date::Tolkien::Shire::Data|Date::Tolkien::Shire::Data>. It is intended to be reasonably compatible with the same-named L<DateTime|DateTime> method, but has some additions to deal with the peculiarities of the Shire calendar. See L<__format()|Date::Tolkien::Shire::Data/__format> in L<Date::Tolkien::Shire::Data|Date::Tolkien::Shire::Data> for the documentation, since that is the code that does the heavy lifting for us. =head3 accented This method returns a true value if the event descriptions returned by L<on_date()|/on_date> and L<strftime()|/strftime> are to be accented. =head3 traditional This method returns a true value if the dates returned by L<on_date()|/on_date>, L<strftime()|/strftime>, and stringification are to use traditional rather than common weekday names. =head2 "Set" Methods =head3 set $dts->set( month => 3, day => 25, ); Allows the day, month, and year to be changed. It takes any parameters allowed by the L<new()|/new> constructor, including all those supported by DateTime and the holiday parameter, except for time_zone. Any parameters not given will be left as is. However, with holidays not falling in any month, it is recommended that a day and month always be given together. Otherwise, unanticipated results may occur. As in the L<new()|/new> constructor, time parameters have no effect on the Shire dates returned. However, they are maintained in case the object is converted to another calendar which supports time. All C<set_*()> methods from L<DateTime|DateTime> are provided. In addition, you get the following: =head3 set_holiday This convenience method is implemented in terms of $dts->set( holiday => ... ); =head3 set_accented This convenience method is implemented in terms of $dts->set( accented => ... ); =head3 set_traditional This convenience method is implemented in terms of $dts->set( traditional => ... ); =head3 truncate $dts->truncate( to => 'day' ); Like the corresponding L<DateTime|DateTime> method, with the following exceptions: If the date is a holiday, truncation to C<'month'> is equivalent to truncation to C<'day'>, since holidays are not part of any month. Similarly, if the date is Midyear's day or the Overlithe, truncation to C<'week'>, C<'local_week'>, or C<'quarter'> is equivalent to truncation to C<'day'>, since these holidays are not part of any week (or, by extension, quarter). The week in the Shire calendar begins on Sterday, so both C<'week'> and C<'local_week'> truncate to that day. There is no textual justification for quarters, but they are in the L<DateTime|DateTime> interface, so I rationalized the concept the same way the Shire calendar rationalizes weeks. If you are not interested in non-canonical functionality, please ignore anything involving quarters. =head3 set_time_zone $dts->set_time_zone( 'UTC' ); Just like in DateTime. This method has no effect on the shire calendar, but be stored with the date if it is ever converted to another calendar with time support. =head2 Comparisons and Stringification All comparison operators should work, just as in DateTime. In addition, all C<DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire> objects will interpolate into a string representing the date when used in a double-quoted string. =head2 Durations and Date Math Durations and date math are supported as of 0.900_01. Because of the peculiarities of the Shire calendar, the relevant duration object is L<DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration|DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration>, which is B<not> a subclass of L<DateTime::Duration|DateTime::Duration>. The date portion of the math is done in the order L<month|/month>, L<week|/week>, L<year|/year>, L<day|/day>. Before adding (or subtracting) months or weeks from a date that is not part of any month (or week), that date will be adjusted forward or backward to the nearest date that is part of a month (or week). The direction of adjustment is specified by the L<DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration|DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration> object; see its documentation for the details. The order of operation was chosen to ensure that only one such adjustment would be necessary for any computation. =head3 add This convenience method takes as arguments either a L<DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration|DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration> object or the arguments needed to manufacture one. The duration is then passed to L<add_duration()|/add_duration>. =head3 add_duration This method takes as its argument a L<DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration|DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration> object. This is added to the invocant (i.e. it is a mutator). The invocant is returned. =head3 subtract This convenience method takes as arguments either a L<DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration|DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration> object or the arguments needed to manufacture one. The duration is then passed to L<subtract_duration()|/subtract_duration>. =head3 subtract_duration This convenience method takes as its argument a L<DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration|DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration> object. The inverse of this object is then passed to L<add_duration()|/add_duration>. =head3 subtract_datetime This takes as its argument a L<DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire|DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire> object. The return is a L<DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration|DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire::Duration> object representing the difference between the two objects. If either the invocant or the argument represents a holiday, the date portion of this difference will contain C<years> and C<days>. Otherwise it will contain C<years>, C<months> and C<days>. =head3 subtract_datetime_absolute, delta_days, delta_md, delta_ms These are just delegated to the corresponding L<DateTime|DateTime> method. The argument can be either a L<DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire|DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire> object or a L<DateTime|DateTime> object. =head1 NOTE: YEAR CALCULATION L<http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/f/fourthage.html> references a letter sent by Tolkien in 1958 in which he estimates approximately 6000 years have passed since the War of the Ring and the end of the Third Age. (Thanks to Danny O'Brien from sending me this link). I took this approximate as an exact amount and calculated back 6000 years from 1958. This I set as the start of the 4th age (1422 S.R.). Thus the fourth age begins in our B.C 4042. According to Appendix D of the Lord of the Rings, leap years in the hobbits' calendar are every 4 years unless it is the turn of the century, in which case it is not a leap year. Our calendar (Gregorian) uses every 4 years unless it's 100 years unless its 400 years. So, if no changes have been made to the hobbits' calendar since the end of the third age, their calendar would be about 15 days further behind ours now than when the War of the Ring took place. Implementing this seemed to me to go against Tolkien's general habit of converting dates in the novel to our equivalents to give us a better sense of time. My thought, at least right now, is that it is truer to the spirit of things for years to line up, and for Midyear's day to still be approximately on the summer solstice. So instead, I have modified Tolkien's description of the hobbit calendar so that leap years occur once every 4 years unless it's 100 years unless it's 400 years, so as it matches the Gregorian calendar in that regard. These 100 and 400 year intervals occur at different times in the two calendars, so there is not a one to one correspondence of days regardless of years. However, the variations follow a 400 year cycle. I<The "I" in the above is Tom Braun -- TRW> =head1 AUTHOR Tom Braun <tbraun@pobox.com> Thomas R. Wyant, III F<wyant at cpan dot org> =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (c) 2003 Tom Braun. All rights reserved. Copyright (C) 2017-2019 Thomas R. Wyant, III The calendar implemented on this module was created by J.R.R. Tolkien, and the copyright is still held by his estate. The license and copyright given herein applies only to this code and not to the calendar itself. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. For more details, see the full text of the licenses in the LICENSES directory included with this module. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. =head1 SUPPORT Support on this module may be obtained by emailing me. However, I am not a developer on the other classes in the DateTime project. For support on them, please see the support options in the DateTime documentation. =head1 BIBLIOGRAPHY Tolkien, J. R. R. I<Return of the King>. New York: Houghton Mifflin Press, 1955. L<http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/f/fourthage.html> =head1 SEE ALSO The DateTime project documentation (perldoc DateTime, datetime@perl.org mailing list, or L<http://datetime.perl.org/>). =cut 1; # ex: set textwidth=72 :