NAME

DateTime::Format::W3CDTF - Parse and format W3CDTF datetime strings

SYNOPSIS

use DateTime::Format::W3CDTF;

my $f = DateTime::Format::W3CDTF->new;
my $dt = $f->parse_datetime( '2003-02-15T13:50:05-05:00' );

# 2003-02-15T13:50:05-05:00
$f->format_datetime($dt);

DESCRIPTION

This module understands the W3CDTF date/time format, an ISO 8601 profile, defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime. This format as the native date format of RSS 1.0.

It can be used to parse these formats in order to create the appropriate objects.

METHODS

This API is currently experimental and may change in the future.

• parse_datetime($string)

  Given a W3CDTF datetime string, this method will return a new DateTime object.

  If given an improperly formatted string, this method may die.

• format_datetime($datetime)

  Given a DateTime object, this methods returns a W3CDTF datetime string.

  NOTE: As of version 0.4, format_datetime no longer attempts to truncate datetimes without a time component. This is due to the fact that DateTime doesn't distinguish between a date with no time component, and midnight.

• format_date($datetime)

  Given a DateTime object, return a W3CDTF datetime string without the time component.

SUPPORT

Support for this module is provided via the datetime@perl.org email list. See http://lists.perl.org/ for more details.

AUTHOR

Kellan Elliott-McCrea <kellan@protest.net>

This module was inspired by DateTime::Format::ICal

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2003 Kellan Elliott-McCrea. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

SEE ALSO

datetime@perl.org mailing list

http://datetime.perl.org/