Dates in Latin
I'm getting married on June 20th. Leïla and I chose this date because it's my birthday. It's my birthday because I was born on Dies Martis xx Junius MCMLXVII, as calculated by:
use Roman;
sub latin_date {
my $datetime = shift;
my @days = (
'Dies Dominica',
'Dies Lunae',
'Dies Martis',
'Dies Mercurii',
'Dies Iovis',
'Dies Veneris',
'Dies Saturni',
'Dies Dominica',
);
my @months = (
'Januarius', 'Februarius', 'Martius', 'Aprilis',
'Maius', 'Junius', 'Julius', 'Augustus',
'September', 'October', 'Novembris', 'December'
);
return join ' ' => $days[ $datetime->day_of_week ],
roman( $datetime->day ), $months[ $datetime->month - 1 ],
uc( roman( $datetime->year ) );
}
I pulled the Latin information from this page about Roman dates.
Ovid, you missed the perfect opportunity to do that in Lingua::Romana::Perligata. :-)
Oh, and congratulations.
gizmo
"I'm getting married on June 20th."
Congratulations :)
I think Caesar would disagree. The old-school Latin designation for the 20th of June would be (I think) "a.d. XII Kal. Jul.", literally "12 days before the Kalends of July". I never did get along with that particular scheme...
And, of course, gratulor tibi de felicia tua. =)
If you're going to use Latin, then the year is MMDCCLXIII (AUC).
Good catch :)
Congrats Ovid.