NAME

Rose::HTML::Form::Field::DateTime::StartDate - Text field for a "start date" in a date range.

SYNOPSIS

$field =
  Rose::HTML::Form::Field::DateTime::StartDate->new(
    label   => 'Date',
    name    => 'date', 
    default => '12/31/2002');

print $field->internal_value; # "2002-12-31T00:00:00"
print $field->output_value;   # "2002-12-31 00:00:00 PM"

$field->input_value('blah');

# "Could not parse date: blah"
$field->validate or warn $field->error;

$field->input_value('4/30/1980 5:30 p.m.');

$dt = $field->internal_value; # DateTime object

print $dt->hour;     # 17
print $dt->day_name; # Wednesday

print $field->html;
...

DESCRIPTION

Rose::HTML::Form::Field::DateTime::StartDate is a subclass of Rose::HTML::Form::Field::DateTime that pins the time to the very first moment of the specified date (i.e., 00:00:00.00000000) if the time is left unspecified.

AUTHOR

John C. Siracusa (siracusa@gmail.com)

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2010 by John C. Siracusa. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.