Perl 6 Deep Dive

Using the Date class

The Date class represents the date—a collection of three numbers, year, month, and a day of the month. To create a new date, call a constructor with the three values:

my $date = Date.new(2017, 7, 19);say $date; # 2017-07-19

To create a variable based on today's date, use the today method, as follows:

my $today = Date.today;say $today; # 2017-07-17

To clone a date, call clone, as follows:

my $date2 = $today.clone;

Separate parts of the date are available from the clearly-named methods of the date, as follows:

say $date.year;  # 2017say $date.month; # 7say $date.day;   # 19

Additionally (and this is already a nice bonus), the Date class can calculate the day of the week (Monday is 1, Sunday is 7):

say $date.day-of-week; ...