DateTime::Calendar::Discordian - Perl extension for the Discordian Calendar

  use DateTime::Calendar::Discordian;

A module that implements the Discordian calendar made popular(?) in the Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson and by the Church of the SubGenius.

Seasons

        Name            Patron apostle
        ----            --------------
        Chaos           Hung Mung
        Discord         Dr. Van Van Mojo
        Confusion       Sri Syadasti
        Bureaucracy     Zarathud
        The Aftermath   The Elder Malaclypse

Days Of The Week

        1. Sweetmorn 
        2. Boomtime 
        3. Pungenday 
        4. Prickle-Prickle 
        5. Setting Orange

The days of the week are named from the five Basic Elements: sweet, boom, pungent, prickle and orange.

Holydays

        Apostle Holydays        Season Holydays
        ----------------        ---------------
        1) Mungday              1) Chaoflux
        2) Mojoday              2) Discoflux
        3) Syaday               3) Confuflux
        4) Zaraday              4) Bureflux
        5) Maladay              5) Afflux

Apostle Holydays occur on the 5th day of the Season.

Season Holydays occur on the 50th day of the Season.

St. Tib's Day occurs once every 4 years (1+4=5) and is inserted between the 59th and 60th days of the Season of Chaos.

The era of the Discordian Calendar is called Year Of Lady Discord (YOLD.) Its' epoch (Confusion 1 of year 0) is equivalent to January 1, -1167 B.C.

X Day is when the Church of the SubGenius believes the alien X-ists will destroy the world. The revised date is equivalent to Confusion 40, 9827 YOLD.

new

Constructs a new DateTime::Calendar::Discordian object. This class method requires the parameters day, season, and year. If day is given as St. Tib's Day (or reasonable facsimile thereof,) then season is omitted. This function will CWdie if invalid parameters are given. For example: my CW$dtcd = DateTime::Calendar::Discordian->new( day => 8, season => 'Discord', year => 3137, );

clone

Returns a copy of the object.

day

Returns the day of the season as a number between 1 and 73 or the string St. Tib's Day.

day_abbr

Returns the name of the day of the week in abbreviated form or undef if it is St. Tib's Day.

day_name

Returns the full name of the day of the week or St. Tib's Day if it is that day.

days_till_x

Returns the number of days until X Day.

from_object

Builds a DateTime::Calendar::Discordian object from another DateTime object. This function takes an object parameter and optionally locale. For example: my CW$dtcd = DateTime::Calendar::Discordian->from_object( object => DateTime->new(day => 22, month => 3, year => 1971,));

holyday

If the current day is a holy day, returns the name of that day otherwise returns an empty string.

season_abbr

Returns the abbreviated name of the current season.

season_name

Returns the full name of the current season.

strftime

This function takes one or more parameters consisting of strings containing special specifiers. For each such string it will return a string formatted according to the specifiers, er, specified. See the strftime Specifiers section for a list of the available format specifiers. They have been chosen to be compatible with the ddate(1) program not necessarily the strftime(3) C function. If you give a format specifier that doesn't exist, then it is simply treated as text.

utc_rd_values

Returns a three-element array containing the current UTC RD days, seconds, and nanoseconds. See DateTime for more details.

year

Returns the current year according to the YOLD (Year Of Lady Discord) era.

The following specifiers are allowed in the format string given to the strftime method: Abbreviated name of the day of the week (i.e., SM.) Internally uses the day_abbr function. Full name of the day of the week (i.e., Sweetmorn.) Internally uses the day_name function. Abbreviated name of the season (i.e., Chs.) Internally uses the season_abbr function. Full name of the season (i.e., Chaos.) Internally uses the season_name function. Ordinal number of day in season (i.e., 23.) Internally uses the day function. Cardinal number of day in season (i.e., 23rd.) Name of current Holyday, if any. Internally uses the holyday function. A newline character. Magic code to prevent rest of format from being printed unless today is a Holyday. A tab character. Number of days remaining until X-Day. Internally uses the days_till_x function. Number of Year Of Lady Discord (YOLD.) Internally uses the year function.

* %{

* %}

Used to enclose the part of the string which is to be replaced with the words St. Tib's Day if the current day is St. Tib's Day.

* %%

A literal `%' character.

* %.

Try it and see.

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

Please submit bugs to the CPAN RT system at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=datetime-Calendar-Discordian> or via email at bug-datetime-calendar-discordian@rt.cpan.org.

Jaldhar H. Vyas, <jaldhar@braincells.com>

Copyright (C) 2004, Consolidated Braincells Inc.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

<http://datetime.perl.org/> The DateTime project web site.

<http://www.ology.org/principia/> The Principia Discordia.

<http://www.subgenius.com/> The Church of the SubGenius.