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+# Writtendate
+A simple, quick, and dirty program, to print the current date in a super-human-readable form.  
+Example output:
+```
+ It is Saturday, the twentieth of March, two thousand twenty-two. It is fourteen twenty-three and twenty-one seconds.
+```
+
+## How 2 compile
+1) `cmake -B build`
+1) `cd build`
+1) `make`
+
+## How 2 use
+`./wdate`  
+that's it...