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# NAME

Date::Advent - Calculate the Sundays of Advent

# VERSION

Version 1.20180423

# SYNOPSIS

Date::Advent takes a Time::Piece date and calculates all four Sundays of Advent for the current Christian liturgical year.

As Advent is the beginning of the Christian liturgical calendar, this usually results in the date for Advent in the current year being dates in the past.  E.g. The Sundays of Advent returned for 12. March 2016 would be 29. November 2015, 6. December ...

    use Time::Piece;
    use Date::Advent;

    my $testAdvent = Date::Advent->new(date => Time::Piece->strptime("2016-01-01", "%Y-%m-%d"));
    say $testAdvent->firstSunday; #Gives date for first Sunday of Advent
    say $testAdvent->secondSunday; #Gives date for second Sunday of Advent
    say $testAdvent->thirdSunday; #Gives date for third Sunday of Advent
    say $testAdvent->fourthSunday; #Gives date for fourth Sunday of Advent
    say $testAdvent->christmas; #Gives date of Christmas

# Object Attributes

## date

Time::Piece date object.  Only attribute required at object construction.

## christmas

Time::Piece attribute for Christmas Day as calculated from the `date` given at object construction.

## firstSunday

Time::Piece attribute for the first Sunday of Advent as calculated from the `date` given at object construction.

## secondSunday

Time::Piece attribute for the second Sunday of Advent as calculated from the `date` given at object construction.

## thirdSunday

Time::Piece attribute for the third Sunday of Advent as calculated from the `date` given at object construction.

## fourthSunday

Time::Piece attribute for the fourth Sunday of Advent as calculated from the `date` given at object construction.

# Object Constructor

## BUILD

Constructor for the Date::Advent object.  Takes the Time::Piece argument of `date` as the date to calculate the current Christian liturgical year's Sundays of Advent from.  The resulting object is immutable and cannot be changed once created.

    my $testAdvent = Date::Advent->new(date => Time::Piece->strptime("2016-01-01", "%Y-%m-%d"));

# AUTHOR

Michael Wayne Arnold, `<michael at rnold.info>`

# BUGS

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