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1NAME
2 DateTime::Format::W3CDTF - Parse and format W3CDTF datetime strings
3
4SYNOPSIS
5 use DateTime::Format::W3CDTF;
6
7 my $w3c = DateTime::Format::W3CDTF->new;
8 my $dt = $w3c->parse_datetime( '2003-02-15T13:50:05-05:00' );
9
10 # 2003-02-15T13:50:05-05:00
11 $w3c->format_datetime($dt);
12
13DESCRIPTION
14 This module understands the W3CDTF date/time format, an ISO 8601
15 profile, defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime. This format as
16 the native date format of RSS 1.0.
17
18 It can be used to parse these formats in order to create the appropriate
19 objects.
20
21METHODS
22 This API is currently experimental and may change in the future.
23
24 * parse_datetime($string)
25
26 Given a W3CDTF datetime string, this method will return a new
27 "DateTime" object.
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29 If given an improperly formatted string, this method may die.
30
31 * format_datetime($datetime)
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33 Given a "DateTime" object, this methods returns a W3CDTF datetime
34 string.
35
36 NOTE: As of version 0.4, format_datetime no longer attempts to
37 truncate datetimes without a time component. This is due to the fact
38 that "DateTime" doesn't distinguish between a date with no time
39 component, and midnight.
40
41 * format_date($datetime)
42
43 Given a "DateTime" object, return a W3CDTF datetime string without
44 the time component.
45
46SUPPORT
47 Support for this module is provided via the datetime@perl.org email
48 list. See http://datetime.perl.org/?MailingList for details.
49
50 Please submit bugs to the CPAN RT system at
51 http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=datetime-format-w3cdtf or
52 via email at bug-datetime-format-w3cdtf@rt.cpan.org.
53
54AUTHOR
55 Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
56
57CREDITS
58 This module is maintained by Gregory Todd Williams <gwilliams@cpan.org>.
59 It was originally created by Kellan Elliott-McCrea <kellan@protest.net>.
60
61 This module was inspired by DateTime::Format::ICal
62
63COPYRIGHT
64 Copyright (c) 2009 David Rolsky. All rights reserved. This program is
65 free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
66 terms as Perl itself.
67
68 Copyright (c) 2003 Kellan Elliott-McCrea
69
70 Portions of the code in this distribution are derived from other works.
71 Please see the CREDITS file for more details.
72
73 The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
74 with this module.
75
76SEE ALSO
77 datetime@perl.org mailing list
78
79 http://datetime.perl.org/
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