1Date::Format(3)       User Contributed Perl Documentation      Date::Format(3)
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NAME

6       Date::Format - Date formating subroutines
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SYNOPSIS

9               use Date::Format;
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11               @lt = localtime(time);
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13               print time2str($template, time);
14               print strftime($template, @lt);
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16               print time2str($template, time, $zone);
17               print strftime($template, @lt, $zone);
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19               print ctime(time);
20               print asctime(@lt);
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22               print ctime(time, $zone);
23               print asctime(@lt, $zone);
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DESCRIPTION

26       This module provides routines to format dates into ASCII strings. They
27       correspond to the C library routines "strftime" and "ctime".
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29       time2str(TEMPLATE, TIME [, ZONE])
30           "time2str" converts "TIME" into an ASCII string using the
31           conversion specification given in "TEMPLATE". "ZONE" if given
32           specifies the zone which the output is required to be in, "ZONE"
33           defaults to your current zone.
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35       strftime(TEMPLATE, TIME [, ZONE])
36           "strftime" is similar to "time2str" with the exception that the
37           time is passed as an array, such as the array returned by
38           "localtime".
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40       ctime(TIME [, ZONE])
41           "ctime" calls "time2str" with the given arguments using the
42           conversion specification "%a %b %e %T %Y\n"
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44       asctime(TIME [, ZONE])
45           "asctime" calls "time2str" with the given arguments using the
46           conversion specification "%a %b %e %T %Y\n"
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MULTI-LANGUAGE SUPPORT

49       Date::Format is capable of formating into several languages by creating
50       a language specific object and calling methods, see Date::Language
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52               my $lang = Date::Language->new('German');
53               $lang->time2str("%a %b %e %T %Y\n", time);
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55       I am open to suggestions on this.
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CONVERSION SPECIFICATION

58       Each conversion specification  is  replaced  by  appropriate characters
59       as   described  in  the  following  list.   The appropriate  characters
60       are  determined  by   the   LC_TIME category of the program's locale.
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62               %%      PERCENT
63               %a      day of the week abbr
64               %A      day of the week
65               %b      month abbr
66               %B      month
67               %c      MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS
68               %C      ctime format: Sat Nov 19 21:05:57 1994
69               %d      numeric day of the month, with leading zeros (eg 01..31)
70               %e      like %d, but a leading zero is replaced by a space (eg  1..32)
71               %D      MM/DD/YY
72               %G      GPS week number (weeks since January 6, 1980)
73               %h      month abbr
74               %H      hour, 24 hour clock, leading 0's)
75               %I      hour, 12 hour clock, leading 0's)
76               %j      day of the year
77               %k      hour
78               %l      hour, 12 hour clock
79               %L      month number, starting with 1
80               %m      month number, starting with 01
81               %M      minute, leading 0's
82               %n      NEWLINE
83               %o      ornate day of month -- "1st", "2nd", "25th", etc.
84               %p      AM or PM
85               %P      am or pm (Yes %p and %P are backwards :)
86               %q      Quarter number, starting with 1
87               %r      time format: 09:05:57 PM
88               %R      time format: 21:05
89               %s      seconds since the Epoch, UCT
90               %S      seconds, leading 0's
91               %t      TAB
92               %T      time format: 21:05:57
93               %U      week number, Sunday as first day of week
94               %w      day of the week, numerically, Sunday == 0
95               %W      week number, Monday as first day of week
96               %x      date format: 11/19/94
97               %X      time format: 21:05:57
98               %y      year (2 digits)
99               %Y      year (4 digits)
100               %Z      timezone in ascii. eg: PST
101               %z      timezone in format -/+0000
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103       %d, %e, %H, %I, %j, %k, %l, %m, %M, %q, %y and %Y can be output in
104       Roman numerals by prefixing the letter with "O", e.g. %OY will output
105       the year as roman numerals.
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LIMITATION

108       The functions in this module are limited to the time range that can be
109       represented by the time_t data type, i.e. 1901-12-13 20:45:53 GMT to
110       2038-01-19 03:14:07 GMT.
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AUTHOR

113       Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>
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116       Copyright (c) 1995-2009 Graham Barr. This program is free software; you
117       can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
118       itself.
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