NAME

Mail::Field::Date - a date header field

INHERITANCE

Mail::Field::Date
  is a Mail::Field

SYNOPSIS

use HTTP::Date 'time2iso';
my $field = Mail::Field->new(Date => time2iso());

DESCRIPTION

Represents one "Date" header field.

METHODS

Constructors

Mail::Field::Date->combine(FIELDS)

See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

Mail::Field::Date->extract(TAG, HEAD [, INDEX ])

See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

Mail::Field::Date->new(TAG [, STRING | OPTIONS])

See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

"Fake" constructors

$obj->create(OPTIONS)

See ""Fake" constructors" in Mail::Field

$obj->parse()

See ""Fake" constructors" in Mail::Field

Accessors

$obj->set(OPTIONS)

-Option --Default
 Time     undef
 TimeStr  undef

Time => SECONDS

TimeStr => STRING

A string acceptable to Date::Parse.

$obj->stringify()

See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

$obj->tag()

Mail::Field::Date->tag()

See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

Smart accessors

$obj->text([STRING])

See "Smart accessors" in Mail::Field

$obj->time([TIME])

Query (or change) the TIME (as stored in the field) in seconds.

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: Undefined subroutine <method> called

Mail::Field objects use autoloading to compile new functionality. Apparently, the mehod called is not implemented for the specific class of the field object.

SEE ALSO

This module is part of the MailTools distribution, http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.

AUTHORS

The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr. Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to further development.

Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>. Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek <poe@cit.dk>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

LICENSE

Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2007 Mark Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html