Date-Tolkien-Shire-Data is Copyright (C) 2017-2021 by Thomas R. Wyant, III DESCRIPTION This Perl module contains common or near-common code factored out of Date::Tolkien::Shire and DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire. This is mostly data and calculations common to the two modules, but there is also a piece of new functionality: an output formatter for Shire dates analogous to strftime(). All functionality is provided by subroutines. Because of its nature, you probably do not want to use this module directly. At least, not without looking into Date::Tolkien::Shire which is a semi-thin object-oriented front end to this module, or DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire which is a somewhat-quirky member of the DateTime family. INSTALLATION This module is best installed using your favorite CPAN client: cpan, cpanp, or cpanm. ActivePerl users can try their ppm. Failing that, you can use one of the two usual incantations: gunzip Date-Tolkien-Shire-Data-9.999.tar.gz tar -xf Date-Tolkien-Shire-Data-9.999.tar perl Makefile.PL make make test make install or gunzip Date-Tolkien-Shire-Data-9.999.tar.gz tar -xf Date-Tolkien-Shire-Data-9.999.tar perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Build install You should substitute the appropriate program name for 'make', eg nmake (typically) under MSWin32, or mms or mmk under VMS. See ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe for a copy of nmake for MSWin32 if you need it. Of course, since it's pure Perl, you can just expand the kit and drop SpaceTrack.pm and the SpaceTrack folder into the Astro directory (creating it if necessary) in the appropriate place in your @INC directories. LICENSING INFORMATION This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.10.0. 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.