DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS(3pm)

NAME

       DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS - Convert DateTimes to/from Mac OS epoch seconds

SYNOPSIS

	 use DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS;

	 my $dt = DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS->parse_datetime( 1051488000 );
	 DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS->format_datetime($dt);
	  # 1051488000

	 my $formatter = DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS->new();

	 my $dt2 = $formatter->parse_datetime( 1051488000 );

	 $formatter->format_datetime($dt2);
	  # 1051488000

DESCRIPTION

       This module can convert a DateTime object (or any object that can be converted to a DateTime object) to the number of seconds since the Mac
       OS epoch.

       Note that the Mac OS epoch is defined in the local time zone. This means that these two pieces of code will print the same number of
       seconds, even though they represent two datetimes 6 hours apart:

	   $dt = DateTime->new( year => 2003, month => 5, day => 2,
				time_zone => 'Europe/Amsterdam' );
	   print $formatter->format_datetime($dt);

	   $dt = DateTime->new( year => 2003, month => 5, day => 2,
				time_zone => 'America/Chicago' );
	   print $formatter->format_datetime($dt);

       Mac OS X is a Unix system, and uses the Unix epoch (1970-01-01T00:00:00). Use DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix instead.

METHODS

       Most of the methods are the same as those in DateTime::Format::Epoch.  The only difference is the constructor.

       o   new()

	   Constructor of the formatter/parser object. It has no parameters.

SUPPORT

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

AUTHOR

       Eugene van der Pijll <pijll@gmx.net>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2003 Eugene van der Pijll.  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

       datetime@perl.org mailing list

perl v5.10.1							    2007-12-03				       DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS(3pm)