Date-Tolkien-Shire is Copyright (C) 2001-2003, 2006 by Tom Braun, Copyright (C) 2017 by Thomas R. Wyant, III DESCRIPTION This is an object-oriented module to convert dates into the Shire Calender as presented in the Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. It includes converting epoch time to the Shire Calendar (you can also get epoch time back), comparison operators, and a method to print a formatted string containing that does something to the effect of on this date in history -- pulling events from the Lord of the Rings. The biggest use I can see in this thing is in a startup script or possible to keep yourself entertained in an otherwise boring app that includes a date. If you have any other ideas/suggestions/uses, etc., please let me know. I am curious to see how this gets used (if it gets used that is). INSTALLATION This pure-Perl module is installable using any of the usual incantations. LICENSING INFORMATION This package 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 directory LICENSES. 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.