add dynamic date range calculation for dates, and add color gradient component, add color gradient for language and chrono
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This project's specs depend on puppet core, and thus they require the
`puppetlabs_spec_helper` project. For more information please see the README
in that project, which can be found here: [puppetlabs spec
helper](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs_spec_helper)