DateTime::Format::DB2(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				DateTime::Format::DB2(3pm)

NAME

       DateTime::Format::DB2 - Parse and format DB2 dates and times

SYNOPSIS

	 use DateTime::Format::DB2;

	 my $dt = DateTime::Format::DB2->parse_timestamp( '2003-01-16-23.12.01.300000' );

	 # 2003-01-16-23.12.01.300000
	 DateTime::Format::DB2->format_timestamp($dt);

DESCRIPTION

       This module understands the formats used by DB2 for its DATE, 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 DB2 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 DB2 does not provide time zone information.

       * parse_time($string)
       * parse_date($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 DB2 stores the local datetime, not UTC.

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

       * format_date($datetime)
       * format_time($datetime)
       * format_timestamp($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

       Jess Robinson <castaway@desert-island.demon.co.uk>

       This module was shamelessly cloned from Dave Rolsky's DateTime::Format::MySQL module.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2005 Jess Robinson.  All rights reserved.	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
       same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       datetime@perl.org mailing list

       http://datetime.perl.org/

perl v5.8.8							    2007-01-20						DateTime::Format::DB2(3pm)