Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::DateTime - Plugin providing Date/Time methods

  my $obj = $c->plugin('DateTime')->method( ... );     # Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::DateTime->method()

    or

  $c->plugin('DateTime')->method( ... );

Common methods for dealing with Date/Time.

This package is part of a larger distribution and was NOT intended to be used directly. In order for this plugin to work properly, the following packages must be installed:

  Apache2::WebApp
  Date::Calc
  Date::Format
  Date::Manip
  Params::Validate
  Time::ParseDate

From source:

  $ tar xfz Apache2-WebApp-Plugin-DateTime-0.X.X.tar.gz
  $ perl MakeFile.PL PREFIX=~/path/to/custom/dir LIB=~/path/to/custom/lib
  $ make
  $ make test
  $ make install

Perl one liner using CPAN.pm:

  $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::DateTime'

Use of CPAN.pm in interactive mode:

  $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
  cpan> install Apache2::WebApp::Plugin::DateTime
  cpan> quit

Just like the manual installation of Perl modules, the user may need root access during this process to insure write permission is allowed within the installation directory.

Return the total days between dates.

  my $date1 = 'Sun Oct 18 15:14:48 2009';     # then and
  my $date2 = localtime(time);                # now

  my $delta = $c->plugin('DateTime')->days_between_dates( $date1, $date2 );

Convert seconds-since-epoch to a human readable format.

  my $date = $c->plugin('DateTime')->format_time( $unix_time, '%a %b %d %T %Y' );

See Date::Format for character conversion specification.

Apache2::WebApp, Apache2::WebApp::Plugin, Date::Calc, Date::Format, Date::Manip, Params::Validate, Time::ParseDate

Marc S. Brooks, <mbrooks@cpan.org> - http://mbrooks.info

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

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html