[% USE date %] # use current time and default format [% date.format %] # specify time as seconds since epoch # or as a 'h:m:s d-m-y' or 'y-m-d h:m:s' string [% date.format(960973980) %] [% date.format('4:20:36 21/12/2000') %] [% date.format('2000/12/21 4:20:36') %] # specify format [% date.format(mytime, '%H:%M:%S') %] # specify locale [% date.format(date.now, '%a %d %b %y', 'en_GB') %] # named parameters [% date.format(mytime, format = '%H:%M:%S') %] [% date.format(locale = 'en_GB') %] [% date.format(time = date.now, format = '%H:%M:%S', locale = 'en_GB) %] # specify default format to plugin [% USE date(format = '%H:%M:%S', locale = 'de_DE') %] [% date.format %] ...
The Date
plugin provides an easy way to generate formatted
time and date strings by delegating to the POSIX
strftime()
routine.
The plugin can be loaded via the familiar USE directive.
[% USE date %]
This creates a plugin object with the default name of
'date
'. An alternate name can be specified as such:
[% USE myname = date %]
The plugin provides the format()
method which accepts a time
value, a format string and a locale name. All of these parameters are
optional with the current system time, default format ('%H:%M:%S
%d-%b-%Y
') and current locale being used respectively, if
undefined. Default values for the time, format and/or locale may be
specified as named parameters in the USE
directive.
[% USE date(format = '%a %d-%b-%Y', locale = 'fr_FR') %]
When called without any parameters, the format()
method
returns a string representing the current system time, formatted by
strftime()
according to the default format and for the
default locale (which may not be the current one, if locale is set in the
USE
directive).
[% date.format %]
The plugin allows a time/date to be specified as seconds since the epoch,
as is returned by time()
.
File last modified: [% date.format(filemod_time) %]
The time/date can also be specified as a string of the form h:m:s
d/m/y
or y/m/d h:m:s
. Any of the characters : / - or
space may be used to delimit fields.
[% USE day = date(format => '%A', locale => 'en_GB') %] [% day.format('4:20:00 9-13-2000') %]
Output:
Tuesday
A format string can also be passed to the format()
method,
and a locale specification may follow that.
[% date.format(filemod, '%d-%b-%Y') %] [% date.format(filemod, '%d-%b-%Y', 'en_GB') %]
A fourth parameter allows you to force output in GMT, in the case of seconds-since-the-epoch input:
[% date.format(filemod, '%d-%b-%Y', 'en_GB', 1) %]
Note that in this case, if the local time is not GMT, then also
specifying '%Z
' (time zone) in the format parameter will
lead to an extremely misleading result.
Any or all of these parameters may be named. Positional parameters should
always be in the order ($time, $format, $locale)
.
[% date.format(format => '%H:%M:%S') %] [% date.format(time => filemod, format => '%H:%M:%S') %] [% date.format(mytime, format => '%H:%M:%S') %] [% date.format(mytime, format => '%H:%M:%S', locale => 'fr_FR') %] [% date.format(mytime, format => '%H:%M:%S', gmt => 1) %] ...etc...
The now()
method returns the current system time in seconds
since the epoch.
[% date.format(date.now, '%A') %]
The calc()
method can be used to create an interface to the
Date::Calc
module (if installed on your system).
[% calc = date.calc %] [% calc.Monday_of_Week(22, 2001).join('/') %]
The manip()
method can be used to create an interface to the
Date::Manip
module (if installed on your system).
[% manip = date.manip %] [% manip.UnixDate("Noon Yesterday","%Y %b %d %H:%M") %]
Thierry-Michel Barral wrote the original plugin.
Andy Wardley provided some minor fixups/enhancements, a test script and documentation.
Mark D. Mills cloned Date::Manip
from the
Date::Calc
sub-plugin.
Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Thierry-Michel Barral, Andy Wardley.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.