wok annotate perl-date-manip/description.txt @ rev 24311

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author Hans-G?nter Theisgen
date Thu Jan 20 15:28:58 2022 +0100 (2022-01-20)
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Hans-G?nter@24192 1 Date::Manip is a series of modules designed to make any common
Hans-G?nter@24192 2 date or time operation easy to do.
Hans-G?nter@24192 3 Operations such as comparing two times, determining a date a
Hans-G?nter@24192 4 given amount of time from another, or parsing international
Hans-G?nter@24192 5 times are all easily done.
Hans-G?nter@24192 6 It deals with time as it is used in the Gregorian calendar
Hans-G?nter@24192 7 (the one currently in use) with full support for time changes
Hans-G?nter@24192 8 due to daylight saving time.
Hans-G?nter@24192 9
Hans-G?nter@24192 10 From the very beginning, the main focus of Date::Manip has been
Hans-G?nter@24192 11 to be able to do ANY desired date or time operation easily.
Hans-G?nter@24192 12 Many other modules exist which may do a subset of these
Hans-G?nter@24192 13 operations quicker or more efficiently, but no other module
Hans-G?nter@24192 14 can do all of the operations available in Date::Manip.
Hans-G?nter@24192 15
Hans-G?nter@24192 16 Date::Manip has functionality to work with several fundamental
Hans-G?nter@24192 17 types of data.