NAME
    Date::Tie - a perlish interface to dates

SYNOPSIS
	use Date::Tie;

	tie %date, 'Date::Tie';
	%date = { year => 2001, month => 11, day => '09' };
	$date{year}++;
	$date{month} += 12;    # 2003-11-09

	# you can also do this
	$date = Date::Tie->new( year => 2001, month => 11, day => '09' );
	$date->{year}++;
	$date->{month} += 12;  # 2003-11-09

DESCRIPTION

Date::Tie is an attempt to simplify date operations syntax.

Date::Tie manages a hash containing the keys: 
epoch, year, month, day, hour, minute, and second.
Whenever a new value is stored in a key, it may overflow to 
the other keys following the common (ISO) date rules. 

For example: 
	 print $a{hour}, ":", $a{minute};     #  00 59
	 $a{minute}++;
	 print $a{hour}, ":", $a{minute};     #  01 00

HISTORY
        
	0.03 STORE rewritten
		examples work

	0.02 Make it a real module

	0.01 I started this when dLux asked:
		> What about this kind of syntax:
		> my $mydate = new XXXX::Date "2001-11-07";
		> # somewhere later in the code
		> my $duedate = $mydate + 14 * XXX::Date::DAY;
		> my $duedate = $mydate + 14 * DAY;
		> my $duedate = $mydate->add(12, DAYS);
		> my $duedate = $mydate->add(day => 12);
		> my $duedate = $mydate + "12 days";
		> my $duedate = $mydate + "12 days and 4 hours and 3 seconds"; # :-)

AUTHOR
    Flávio Soibelmann Glock (fglock@pucrs.br)