NAME

Date::Ethiopic::ET::am - Amharic Calendar Data for the Date::Ethiopic manpage.

SYNOPSIS

 use Date::Ethiopic::ET::am;
 #
 #  typical instantiation:
 #
 my $amh = new Date::Ethiopic::ET::am ( ical => '19950629' );

 #
 # Print Amharic day and month names:
 #
 print "  Day   Name: ", $amh->day_name, "\n";
 print "  Month Name: ", $amh->month_name, "\n";

 #
 # POSIX long date format:
 #
 print "  Long  Date: ", $amh->long_date, "\n";
 print "  Long  Date: ", $amh->long_date('ethio'), "\n";

 #
 # POSIX full date format:
 #
 print "  Full  Date: ", $amh->full_date, "\n";
 #
 # Convert all numbers into Ethiopic:
 #
 print "  Full  Date: ", $amh->full_date('ethio'), "\n";

 #
 # Turn transcription on:
 #
 $amh->useTranscription ( 1 );
 print "  Full  Date: ", $amh->full_date, "\n";

 #
 # Turn transcription off:
 #
 $amh->useTranscription ( 0 );
 print "  Full  Date: ", $amh->full_date, "\n";

DESCRIPTION

The Date::Ethiopic::ET::am module provides methods for accessing date information in the Ethiopic calendar system. The module will also convert dates to and from the Gregorian system.

CREDITS

Yeha: http://yeha.sourceforge.net

REQUIRES

Date::Ethiopic, which is distributed in the same package with this file.

COPYRIGHT

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

BUGS

None presently known.

AUTHOR

Daniel Yacob, dyacob@cpan.org