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Time-Strptime-1.04
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NAME

Time::Strptime::Format - strptime(3) format compiler and parser.

SYNOPSIS

use Time::Strptime::Format;

# OO style
my $fmt = Time::Strptime::Format->new('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S');
my ($epoch_o, $offset_o) = $fmt->parse('2014-01-01 00:00:00');

DESCRIPTION

This is Time::Strptime engine.

METHODS

This class offers the following methods.

Time::Strptime::Format->new($format, \%args)

This methods creates a new format object. It accepts the following arguments:

  • time_zone

    The default time zone to use for objects returned from parsing.

  • locale

    The locale to use for objects returned from parsing.

  • strict

    Strict range check for date and time.

    Example. "2016-02-31" is wrong date string, but Time::Strptime parses as 2016-02-31 in default.

$strptime->parse($string)

Given a string in the pattern specified in the constructor, this method will return the epoch and offset. If given a string that doesn't match the pattern, the formatter will throw the error.

STRPTIME PATTERN TOKENS

The following tokens are allowed in the pattern string for strptime:

  • %%

    The % character.

  • %a or %A

    The weekday name according to the current locale, in abbreviated form or the full name. (ignored)

  • %b or %B or %h

    The month name according to the current locale, in abbreviated form or the full name.

  • %d or %e

    The day of month (01-31). This will parse single digit numbers as well.

  • %D

    Equivalent to %m/%d/%y. (This is the American style date, very confusing to non-Americans, especially since %d/%m/%y is widely used in Europe. The ISO 8601 standard pattern is %F.)

  • %F

    Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d. (This is the ISO style date)

  • %H

    The hour (00-23). This will parse single digit numbers as well.

  • %I

    The hour on a 12-hour clock (1-12).

  • %j

    The day number in the year (1-366).

  • %m

    The month number (01-12). This will parse single digit numbers as well.

  • %M

    The minute (00-59). This will parse single digit numbers as well.

  • %n

    Arbitrary white-space. (ignored)

  • %p

    The equivalent of AM or PM according to the locale in use. (See DateTime::Locale)

  • %r

    Equivalent to %I:%M:%S %p.

  • %R

    Equivalent to %H:%M.

  • %s

    Number of seconds since the Epoch.

  • %S

    The second (0-60; 60 may occur for leap seconds.).

  • %t

    Tab space. (ignored)

  • %T

    Equivalent to %H:%M:%S.

  • %Y

    A 4-digit year, including century (for example, 1991).

  • %z

    An RFC-822/ISO 8601 standard time zone specification. (e.g. +1100)

  • %Z

    The time zone name. (e.g. EST)

LICENSE

Copyright (C) karupanerura.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

karupanerura <karupa@cpan.org>