NAME

Meta::Utils::Time - module to let you access dates and times.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: Time.pm PROJECT: meta

SYNOPSIS

package foo; use Meta::Utils::Time qw(); my($string)=Meta::Utils::Time::now_string();

DESCRIPTION

This is a library to make it easier on you to access dates and time, do calculations on them and other stuff without knowing all the gorry details. Note that we do not want to add routines like "epoch_to_tm" or "string_to_tm" since the tm object is not to be used directly according to Tom Christiansen who maintains these modules. Therefore we use the string and epoch as merely printing and you should hold internal representations of time in tm's which you cannot!!! generate by yourself...(sad but true...).

EXPORTS

tm_to_string($) tm_to_epoch($) now_tm() now_string() now_epoch()

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

tm_to_string($)

Convert time structure to one coherent string that we use to denote time.

tm_to_epoch($)

This routine receives a tm structure time and converts it to epoch.

now_tm()

This routine returns the current time as a tm structure.

now_string()

This routine gives you the current time in a standard form of two digits per each element , larget to smaller of the current date and time up to the second.

now_epoch()

Routine that returns the current time in epoch terms (seconds since 1/1/1970). Dont ask why we need this (something to do with cook).

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Mark Veltzer <mark2776@yahoo.com>

HISTORY

start of revision info 1 Mon Jan 1 16:38:12 2001 MV initial code brought in 2 Sat Jan 6 11:39:39 2001 MV make quality checks on perl code 3 Sat Jan 6 17:14:09 2001 MV more perl checks 4 Tue Jan 9 18:15:19 2001 MV check that all uses have qw 5 Tue Jan 9 19:29:31 2001 MV fix todo items look in pod documentation 6 Wed Jan 10 12:05:55 2001 MV more on tests/more checks to perl 7 Sun Jan 28 02:34:56 2001 MV perl code quality 8 Sun Jan 28 13:51:26 2001 MV more perl quality 9 Tue Jan 30 03:03:17 2001 MV more perl quality 10 Sat Feb 3 23:41:08 2001 MV perl documentation 11 Mon Feb 5 03:21:02 2001 MV more perl quality 12 Tue Feb 6 01:04:52 2001 MV perl qulity code 13 Tue Feb 6 07:02:13 2001 MV more perl code quality 14 Tue Feb 6 22:19:51 2001 MV revision change end of revision info

SEE ALSO

Nothing.

TODO

-Rewrite this whole thing with my own time structure (Tom Christiansen sucks in that he wont allow people to use his...).