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

NAME

       Date::Format - Date formating subroutines

SYNOPSIS

	       use Date::Format;

	       @lt = localtime(time);

	       print time2str($template, time);
	       print strftime($template, @lt);

	       print time2str($template, time, $zone);
	       print strftime($template, @lt, $zone);

	       print ctime(time);
	       print asctime(@lt);

	       print ctime(time, $zone);
	       print asctime(@lt, $zone);

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides routines to format dates into ASCII strings. They correspond to the C library routines "strftime" and "ctime".

       time2str(TEMPLATE, TIME [, ZONE])
	   "time2str" converts "TIME" into an ASCII string using the conversion specification given in "TEMPLATE". "ZONE" if given specifies the
	   zone which the output is required to be in, "ZONE" defaults to your current zone.

       strftime(TEMPLATE, TIME [, ZONE])
	   "strftime" is similar to "time2str" with the exception that the time is passed as an array, such as the array returned by "localtime".

       ctime(TIME [, ZONE])
	   "ctime" calls "time2str" with the given arguments using the conversion specification "%a %b %e %T %Y
"

       asctime(TIME [, ZONE])
	   "asctime" calls "time2str" with the given arguments using the conversion specification "%a %b %e %T %Y
"

MULTI-LANGUAGE SUPPORT
       Date::Format is capable of formating into several languages by creating a language specific object and calling methods, see Date::Language

	       my $lang = Date::Language->new('German');
	       $lang->time2str("%a %b %e %T %Y
", time);

       I am open to suggestions on this.

CONVERSION SPECIFICATION

       Each conversion specification  is  replaced  by	appropriate characters	 as   described  in  the  following  list.   The appropriate
       characters  are	determined  by	 the   LC_TIME category of the program's locale.

	       %%      PERCENT
	       %a      day of the week abbr
	       %A      day of the week
	       %b      month abbr
	       %B      month
	       %c      MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS
	       %C      ctime format: Sat Nov 19 21:05:57 1994
	       %d      numeric day of the month, with leading zeros (eg 01..31)
	       %e      like %d, but a leading zero is replaced by a space (eg  1..32)
	       %D      MM/DD/YY
	       %G      GPS week number (weeks since January 6, 1980)
	       %h      month abbr
	       %H      hour, 24 hour clock, leading 0's)
	       %I      hour, 12 hour clock, leading 0's)
	       %j      day of the year
	       %k      hour
	       %l      hour, 12 hour clock
	       %L      month number, starting with 1
	       %m      month number, starting with 01
	       %M      minute, leading 0's
	       %n      NEWLINE
	       %o      ornate day of month -- "1st", "2nd", "25th", etc.
	       %p      AM or PM
	       %P      am or pm (Yes %p and %P are backwards :)
	       %q      Quarter number, starting with 1
	       %r      time format: 09:05:57 PM
	       %R      time format: 21:05
	       %s      seconds since the Epoch, UCT
	       %S      seconds, leading 0's
	       %t      TAB
	       %T      time format: 21:05:57
	       %U      week number, Sunday as first day of week
	       %w      day of the week, numerically, Sunday == 0
	       %W      week number, Monday as first day of week
	       %x      date format: 11/19/94
	       %X      time format: 21:05:57
	       %y      year (2 digits)
	       %Y      year (4 digits)
	       %Z      timezone in ascii. eg: PST
	       %z      timezone in format -/+0000

       %d, %e, %H, %I, %j, %k, %l, %m, %M, %q, %y and %Y can be output in Roman numerals by prefixing the letter with "O", e.g. %OY will output
       the year as roman numerals.

LIMITATION

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

AUTHOR

       Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1995-2009 Graham Barr. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself.

perl v5.16.2							    2009-12-12							   Date::Format(3)