NAME

Date::Tie - a perlish interface to dates

SYNOPSIS

use Date::Tie;

        tie %date, 'Date::Tie';
        %date = { year => 2001, month => 11, day => '09' };
        $date{year}++;
        $date{month} += 12;    # 2003-11-09

        # you can also do this
        $date = Date::Tie->new( year => 2001, month => 11, day => '09' );
        $date->{year}++;
        $date->{month} += 12;  # 2003-11-09

DESCRIPTION

Date::Tie is an attempt to simplify date operations syntax.

Date::Tie manages a hash containing the keys: epoch, utc_epoch, year, month, day, hour, minute, second, yearday, week, weekday, weekyear, tz, tzhour, tzminute.

Whenever a new value is stored in a key, it will change the other keys following the common (ISO) date rules.

For example:

         print $a{hour}, ":", $a{minute};     #  00:59
         $a{minute}++;
         print $a{hour}, ":", $a{minute};     #  01:00

AUTHOR

Flávio Soibelmann Glock (fglock@gmail.com)