DateTime::Format::MySQL(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      DateTime::Format::MySQL(3pm)

NAME

       DateTime::Format::MySQL - Parse and format MySQL dates and times

SYNOPSIS

	 use DateTime::Format::MySQL;

	 my $dt = DateTime::Format::MySQL->parse_datetime( '2003-01-16 23:12:01' );

	 # 2003-01-16 23:12:01
	 DateTime::Format::MySQL->format_datetime($dt);

DESCRIPTION

       This module understands the formats used by MySQL for its DATE, DATETIME, TIME, and TIMESTAMP data types.  It can be used to parse these
       formats in order to create DateTime objects, and it can take a DateTime object and produce a string representing it in the MySQL format.

METHODS

       This class offers the following methods.  All of the parsing methods set the returned DateTime object's time zone to the floating time
       zone, because MySQL does not provide time zone information.

       * parse_datetime($string)
       * parse_date($string)
       * parse_timestamp($string)
	   Given a value of the appropriate type, this method will return a new "DateTime" object.  The time zone for this object will always be
	   the floating time zone, because by MySQL stores the local datetime, not UTC.

	   If given an improperly formatted string, this method may die.

       * format_date($datetime)
       * format_time($datetime)
       * format_datetime($datetime)
	   Given a "DateTime" object, this methods returns an appropriately formatted string.

SUPPORT

       Support for this module is provided via the datetime@perl.org email list.  See http://lists.perl.org/ for more details.

AUTHOR

       Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2003 David Rolsky.  All rights reserved.  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
       same terms as Perl itself.

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

SEE ALSO

       datetime@perl.org mailing list

       http://datetime.perl.org/

perl v5.8.8							    2006-10-23					      DateTime::Format::MySQL(3pm)