From 38e9f27b05c223f17fcde06a7ee6573c7a0020ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 15:52:41 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add Create A Date With The Date Sigil as an elixir til

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 README.md                                   |  3 ++-
 elixir/create-a-date-with-the-date-sigil.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 elixir/create-a-date-with-the-date-sigil.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 26f39d8..97c6511 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ variety of languages and technologies. These are things that don't really
 warrant a full blog post. These are mostly things I learn by pairing with
 smart people at [Hashrocket](http://hashrocket.com/).
 
-_439 TILs and counting..._
+_440 TILs and counting..._
 
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@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ _439 TILs and counting..._
 ### Elixir
 
 - [Append To A Keyword List](elixir/append-to-a-keyword-list.md)
+- [Create A Date With The Date Sigil](elixir/create-a-date-with-the-date-sigil.md)
 - [Execute Raw SQL In An Ecto Migration](elixir/execute-raw-sql-in-an-ecto-migration.md)
 - [Expose Internal Representation](elixir/expose-internal-representation.md)
 - [List Functions For A Module](elixir/list-functions-for-a-module.md)
diff --git a/elixir/create-a-date-with-the-date-sigil.md b/elixir/create-a-date-with-the-date-sigil.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ed6827b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/elixir/create-a-date-with-the-date-sigil.md
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Create A Date With The Date Sigil
+
+Elixir 1.3 introduced a new sigil for creating dates, `~D`. It works in the
+same way as Date's
+[`new/3`](http://elixir-lang.org/docs/stable/elixir/Date.html#new/3)
+function producing the Date struct with each of the date parts.
+
+```elixir
+> ~D[2016-01-01]
+~D[2016-01-01]
+iex(7)> ~D[2016-01-01].year
+2016
+iex(8)> ~D[2016-01-01].month
+1
+iex(9)> ~D[2016-01-01].day
+1
+```