NAME

TimeDate - Date and time formatting subroutines

VERSION

version 2.34

SYNOPSIS

use Date::Format;
use Date::Parse;

# Formatting
print time2str("%Y-%m-%d %T", time);          # 2024-01-15 14:30:00
print time2str("%a %b %e %T %Y\n", time);     # Mon Jan 15 14:30:00 2024

# Parsing
my $time = str2time("Wed, 16 Jun 94 07:29:35 CST");
my ($ss,$mm,$hh,$day,$month,$year,$zone) = strptime("2024-01-15T14:30:00Z");

# Multi-language support
use Date::Language;
my $lang = Date::Language->new('German');
print $lang->time2str("%a %b %e %T %Y\n", time);

DESCRIPTION

The TimeDate distribution provides date parsing, formatting, and timezone handling for Perl.

• Date::Parse

  Parse date strings in a wide variety of formats into Unix timestamps or component values.

• Date::Format

  Format Unix timestamps or localtime arrays into strings using strftime-style conversion specifications.

• Date::Language

  Format and parse dates in over 30 languages including French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, and many more.

• Time::Zone

  Timezone offset lookups and conversions for named timezones.

SEE ALSO

Date::Format, Date::Parse, Date::Language, Time::Zone

AUTHOR

Graham gbarr@pobox.com

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2020 by Graham Barr.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.