NAME

       Time::Beat - Module to convert between standard time and Swatch 
       ".beat" time.

DESCRIPTION

       "Time::Beat" is a module to convert normal time to and from .beats,
       of which there are a thousand in a day. It can change normal time in 
       time() format to .beats, and .beats into either 24-hour or 12-hour 
       normal time.

SYNOPSIS

use Time::Beat qw(beat time24 time12);

my $time_in_beats = beats($time);

my $beats_in_24hr_time = time24($beat);

my $beats_in_12hr_time = time12($beat);

METHODS

There are three methods in Time::Beat.

• beats($time) "beats" will give you the current time in .beats if you do not specify a time string. If you specify a string in "time()" format it will return that particular time in .beats. The basic algorithm for doing this is to take the time in GMT+1 hour, convert it into seconds, and divide by 86.4.
• time24($beat) "time24" takes a 3-digit beat time and outputs a 24-hour time along the lines of "12:34:56". The hours will have leading noughts.
• time12($beat) "time12" takes a 3-digit beat time and outputs a 12-hour time along the lines of "12:34:56 am" or "12:34:56 pm". Hours do not have leading noughts.

CHANGES

       Important: As of v1.2 the method names have changed. The former
       method names, "beattime", "timebeat24" and "timebeat12" will still 
       work, but they have been deprecated, and will be removed at some 
       point in the future.

AUTHOR

       Earle Martin <emartin@cpan.org>. Originally written by James Duncan
       <jduncan@fotango.com>.

SEE ALSO

• DateTime::Format::IBeat This module by Iain Truskett <spoon@cpan.org> does much the same thing but in an OO fashion, and is part of the DateTime project; if you need something more sophisticated, I would suggest you look into that. My thanks also to Iain for contributing patches to this module.
• The .beat home page <http://www.swatch.com/itime_tools/itime.php>