Overview

edate is an erlang date manipulation library

Installation

git clone git://github.com/dweldon/edate.git
cd edate && make

Functions

today() -> Date

returns today's date.

tomorrow() -> Date

returns tomorrow's date.

yesterday() -> Date

returns yesterday's date.

shift(N, Period) -> Date

returns a new date after shifting today's date by N periods. N is an integer, Period is day | days | week | weeks | month | months | year | years

shift(StartDate, N, Period) -> Date

returns a new date after shifting StartDate by N periods. N is an integer, Period is day | days | week | weeks | month | months | year | years > edate:shift({2000,1,1}, -2, days) {1999,12,30} > edate:shift({2000,1,1}, 1, week) {2000,1,8} > edate:shift({2000,1,1}, 4, months) {2000,5,1} > edate:shift({2000,1,1}, 2, years) {2002,1,1}