diff --git a/config/application.rb b/config/application.rb
index 5572ef64..d62c8176 100644
--- a/config/application.rb
+++ b/config/application.rb
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ start = Time.now
 Bundler.require(*Rails.groups)
 puts 'processing time of bundler require: ' + "#{(Time.now - start).round(3).to_s.ljust(5, '0')}s".light_green
 
+require_relative "../lib/version"
+
 module Justask
   class Application < Rails::Application
     # Settings in config/environments/* take precedence over those specified here.
diff --git a/lib/version.rb b/lib/version.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..de6e2759
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/version.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+# Retrospring's version scheme is based on CalVer
+# because we don't really track/plan ahead feature releases
+#
+# The version is structured like this:
+# YYYY.MMDD.PATCH
+#
+# PATCH being a zero-indexed number representing the
+# amount of patch releases for the given day
+
+module Retrospring
+  module Version
+    module_function
+
+    def year
+      2022
+    end
+
+    def month
+      4
+    end
+
+    def day
+      15
+    end
+
+    def patch
+      0
+    end
+
+    def suffix
+      ""
+    end
+
+    def minor
+      [month.to_s.rjust(2, "0"), day.to_s.rjust(2, "0")].join
+    end
+
+    def to_a
+      [year.to_s, minor, patch.to_s]
+    end
+
+    def to_s
+      [to_a.join("."), suffix].join
+    end
+  end
+end
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