Data types to manipulate date and time

Perl 6 offers built-in support to work with dates and times. This is very handy because date-time calculations are not easy (you need to think about leap years, extra seconds, time zones, calendar corrections, and so on).

We will cover two classes: Date and DateTime.

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,...