NAME

Palm::DateTime - Deal with various Palm OS date/time formats

VERSION

This document describes version 1.400 of Palm::DateTime, released March 14, 2015 as part of Palm version 1.400.

DESCRIPTION

Palm::DateTime exports subroutines to convert between various Palm OS date/time formats. All subroutines are exported by default.

Data types:

secs     - Seconds since the system epoch
dlptime  - Palm OS DlpDateTimeType (raw)
datetime - Palm OS DateTimeType (raw)
palmtime - Decoded date/time (a hashref)
             KEY     VALUES
             second  0-59
             minute  0-59
             hour    0-23
             day     1-31
             month   1-12
             year    4 digits

SUBROUTINES

datetime_to_palmtime

$palmtime = datetime_to_palmtime($datetime)

Converts Palm OS DateTimeType to a palmtime hashref. In addition to the usual keys, $palmtime will contain a wday field.

dlptime_to_palmtime

$palmtime = dlptime_to_palmtime($dlptime)

Converts Palm OS DlpDateTimeType to a palmtime hashref.

dlptime_to_secs

$secs = dlptime_to_secs($dlptime)

Converts a Palm OS DlpDateTimeType to epoch time.

palmtime_to_ascii

$string = palmtime_to_secs(\%palmtime)

Converts a palmtime hashref to a YYYYMMDDhhmmss string (e.g. 20011116200051). %palmtime must contain all standard fields.

palmtime_to_dlptime

$dlptime = palmtime_to_dlptime(\%palmtime)

Converts a palmtime hashref to a Palm OS DlpDateTimeType. %palmtime must contain all standard fields.

palmtime_to_iso8601

$string = palmtime_to_iso8601(\%palmtime)

Converts a palmtime hashref to a YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ string (e.g. 2001-11-16T20:00:51Z). %palmtime must contain all standard fields. GMT timezone ("Z") is assumed.

palmtime_to_secs

$secs = palmtime_to_secs(\%palmtime)

Converts a palmtime hashref to epoch seconds. %palmtime must contain all standard fields.

secs_to_dlptime

$dlptime = secs_to_dlptime($secs)

Converts epoch time to a Palm OS DlpDateTimeType.

secs_to_palmtime

$palmtime = secs_to_palmtime($secs)

Converts epoch seconds to a palmtime hashref.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Palm::DateTime requires no configuration files or environment variables.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

AUTHORS

Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo AT towertech.it>

Currently maintained by Christopher J. Madsen <perl AT cjmweb.net>

Please report any bugs or feature requests to <bug-Palm AT rt.cpan.org> or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Palm.

You can follow or contribute to p5-Palm's development at https://github.com/madsen/p5-Palm.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2003 by Andrew Arensburger & Alessandro Zummo.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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