From 7b6d32ad8858ca8c7ef703cfa842b718ffbc7135 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sudhir Shenoy Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 19:28:48 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3450d72..0447251 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,2 +1,17 @@ # cl-dates Date-time library for Common Lisp + +This library contains a fairly comprehensive set of functions to handle dates with somewhat weaker support for date-times. It is useful for applications where dates are an important data type e.g., business or financial calculations. + +Features provided are: +- Conversion from a string to date: a wide variety of date time formats are accepted (see test-parse-date.lisp for examples) +- Printing dates in various formats +- Computation of special dates / datetimes - Easter, Spring / Autumn equinoxes, Summer / Winter Solstice +- Date arithmetic including support for business dates (holiday processing) +- Date comparisons +- Miscellaneous date functions e.g., computing the 3rd Wednesday of a month + +The library does not have any dependencies on third party libraries and is provided under a BSD licence. + +Sudhir Shenoy +July, 2017