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+# Daterade
+Daterade (rhymes with Gatorade) is a date recurrence library. The goal of Daterade is to generate date times based on [RFC 5545 (ICalendar) recurrence rules](https://icalendar.org/iCalendar-RFC-5545/3-8-5-3-recurrence-rule.html).
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+## TODO
+* Serialize/Deserialize as `RRULE`
+* Support for weekday field