3. Motivation
Whilst working on a project I needed a way of verifying some Dates of Birth; of course, it isn't possible to do
anything with dates before 1970 on 32-bit systems, and I had used the
perl CPAN package Date::Calc which contains many methods for manipulating dates.
I also liked some of the functions used in MySQL so I incorporated them as well.
And so this is why vlibDate was created, it's a sort of hybrid between a lite version of Perl's Date::Calc and
MySQL's Date functions.
