NAME

DateTime::Format::CLDR - Parse and format CLDR time patterns

SYNOPSIS

use DateTime::Format::CLDR;

# 1. Basic example
my $cldr1 = new DateTime::Format::CLDR(
    pattern     => 'HH:mm:ss',
    locale      => 'de_AT',
    time_zone   => 'Europe/Vienna',
);

my $dt1 = $cldr1->parse_datetime('23:16:42');

print $cldr1->format_datetime($dt1);
# 23:16:42

# 2. Get pattern from selected locale
# pattern is taken from 'date_format_medium' in DateTime::Locale::de_AT
my $cldr2 = new DateTime::Format::CLDR(
    locale      => 'de_AT',
);

print $cldr2->parse_datetime('23.11.2007');
# 2007-11-23T00:00:00

# 3. Croak when things go wrong
my $cldr3 = new DateTime::Format::CLDR(
    locale      => 'de_AT',
    on_error    => 'croak',
);

$cldr3->parse_datetime('23.33.2007');
# Croaks

# 4. Use DateTime::Locale
my $locale = DateTime::Locale->load('en_GB');
my $cldr4 = new DateTime::Format::CLDR(
    pattern     => $locale->datetime_format_medium,
    locale      => $locale,
);

print $cldr4->parse_datetime('22 Dec 1995 09:05:02');
# 1995-12-22T09:05:02

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a parser (and also a formater) for datetime strings using patterns as defined by the Unicode CLDR Project (Common Locale Data Repository). http://unicode.org/cldr/.

CLDR format is supported by DateTime and DateTime::Locale starting with version 0.40.

METHODS

Constructor

new

DateTime::Format::CLDR->new(%PARAMS);

The following parameters are used by DateTime::Format::CLDR:

locale

Locale.

See locale accessor.
pattern (optional)

CLDR pattern. If you don't provide a pattern the date_format_medium pattern from DateTime::Local for the selected locale will be used.

See pattern accessor.
time_zone (optional)

Timezone that should be used by default. If your pattern contains timezone information this attribute will be ignored.

See time_zone accessor.
on_error (optional)

Set the error behaviour.

See on_error accessor.
incomplete (optional)

Set the behaviour how to handle incomplete date information.

See incomplete accessor.

Accessors

pattern

Get/set CLDR pattern. See "CLDR PATTERNS" or "CLDR Patterns" in DateTime for details about patterns.

$cldr->pattern('d MMM y HH:mm:ss');

It is possible to retrieve patterns from DateTime::Locale

$dl = DateTime::Locale->load('es_AR');
$cldr->pattern($dl->datetime_format_full);

time_zone

Get/set time_zone. Returns a DateTime::TimeZone object.

Accepts either a timezone name or a DateTime::TimeZone object.

$cldr->time_zone('America/Argentina/Mendoza');
OR
my $tz = DateTime::TimeZone->new(name => 'America/Argentina/Mendoza');
$cldr->time_zone($tz);

locale

Get/set a locale. Returns a DateTime::Locale object.

Accepts either a locale name or a DateTime::Locale::* object.

$cldr->locale('fr_CA');
OR  
$dl = DateTime::Locale->load('fr_CA');
$cldr->locale($dl);

on_error

Get/set the error behaviour.

Accepts the following values

'undef' (Literal) (default)

Returns undef on error and sets errmsg
'croak'

Croak on error
CODEREF

Run the given coderef on error.

incomplete

Set the behaviour how to handle incomplete Date information.

Accepts the following values

'1' (default)

Sets the missing values to '1'. Thus if you only parse a time sting you would get '0001-01-01' as the date.
'incomplete'

Create a DateTime::Incomplete object instead.
CODEREF

Run the given coderef on incomplete values. The code reference will be called with the DateTime::Format::CLDR object and a hash of parsed values as supplied to DateTime->new. It should return a modified hash which will be passed to DateTime->new.

Public Methods

parse_datetime

my $datetime = $cldr->parse_datetime($string);

Parses a string and returns a DateTime object on success (If you provide incomplete data and set the incomplete attribute accordingly it will return a DateTime::Incomplete object). If the string cannot be parsed an error will be thrown (depending on the on_error attribute).

format_datetime

my $string = $cldr->format_datetime($datetime);

Formats a DateTime object using the set locale and pattern. (not the time_zone)

errmsg

my $string = $cldr->errmsg();

Stores the last error message. Especially useful if the on_error behavior of the object is 'undef', so you can work out why things went wrong.

Exportable functions

There are no methods exported by default, however the following are available:

cldr_format

use DateTime::Format::CLDR qw(cldr_format);
&cldr_format($pattern,$datetime);

cldr_parse

use DateTime::Format::CLDR qw(cldr_parse);
&cldr_parse($pattern,$string);
OR
&cldr_parse($pattern,$string,$locale);

Default locale is 'en'.

CLDR PATTERNS

Parsing

Some patterns like day of week, quarter, ect. cannot be used to construct a date. However these patterns can be parsed, and a warning will be issued if they do not match the parsed date.

Ambigous patterns (eg. narrow day of week formats for many locales) will be parsed but ignored in datetime calculation.

Supported CLDR Patterns

See "CLDR Patterns" in DateTime.

CLDR provides the following pattenrs:

G{1,3}

The abbreviated era (BC, AD).
GGGG

The wide era (Before Christ, Anno Domini).
GGGGG

The narrow era, if it exists (and it mostly doesn't).

Not used to construct a date.
y and y{3,}

The year, zero-prefixed as needed.
yy

This is a special case. It always produces a two-digit year, so "1976" becomes "76".
Y{1,}

The week of the year, from $dt->week_year().
u{1,}

Same as "y" except that "uu" is not a special case.
Q{1,2}

The quarter as a number (1..4).

Not used to construct a date.
QQQ

The abbreviated format form for the quarter.

Not used to construct a date.
QQQQ

The wide format form for the quarter.

Not used to construct a date.
q{1,2}

The quarter as a number (1..4).

Not used to construct a date.
qqq

The abbreviated stand-alone form for the quarter.

Not used to construct a date.
qqqq

The wide stand-alone form for the quarter.

Not used to construct a date.
M{1,2}

The numerical month.
MMM

The abbreviated format form for the month.
MMMM

The wide format form for the month.
MMMMM

The narrow format form for the month.
L{1,2}

The numerical month.
LLL

The abbreviated stand-alone form for the month.
LLLL

The wide stand-alone form for the month.
LLLLL

The narrow stand-alone form for the month.
w{1,2}

The week of the year, from $dt->week_number().

Not used to construct a date.
W

The week of the month, from $dt->week_of_month().

Not used to construct a date.
d{1,2}

The numeric day of of the month.
D{1,3}

The numeric day of of the year.

Not used to construct a date.
F

The day of the week in the month, from $dt->weekday_of_month().

Not used to construct a date.
g{1,}

The modified Julian day, from $dt->mjd().

Not supported by DateTime::Format::CLDR
E{1,3}

The abbreviated format form for the day of the week.

Not used to construct a date.
EEEE

The wide format form for the day of the week.

Not used to construct a date.
EEEEE

The narrow format form for the day of the week.

Not used to construct a date.
e{1,2}

The local day of the week, from 1 to 7. This number depends on what day is considered the first day of the week, which varies by locale. For example, in the US, Sunday is the first day of the week, so this returns 2 for Monday.

Not used to construct a date.
eee

The abbreviated format form for the day of the week.

Not used to construct a date.
eeee

The wide format form for the day of the week.

Not used to construct a date.
eeeee

The narrow format form for the day of the week.

Not used to construct a date.
c

The numeric day of the week (not localized).

Not used to construct a date.
ccc

The abbreviated stand-alone form for the day of the week.

Not used to construct a date.
cccc

The wide stand-alone form for the day of the week.

Not used to construct a date.
ccccc

The narrow format form for the day of the week.

Not used to construct a date.
a

The localized form of AM or PM for the time.
h{1,2}

The hour from 1-12.
H{1,2}

The hour from 0-23.
K{1,2}

The hour from 0-11.
k{1,2}

The hour from 1-24.
j{1,2}

The hour, in 12 or 24 hour form, based on the preferred form for the locale. In other words, this is equivalent to either "h{1,2}" or "H{1,2}".
m{1,2}

The minute.
s{1,2}

The second.
S{1,}

The fractional portion of the seconds, rounded based on the length of the specifier. This returned without a leading decimal point, but may have leading or trailing zeroes.
A{1,}

The millisecond of the day, based on the current time. In other words, if it is 12:00:00.00, this returns 43200000.

Not supported by DateTime::Format::CLDR
z{1,3}

The time zone short name.
zzzz

The time zone long name.
Z{1,3}

The time zone offset.
ZZZZ

The time zone short name and the offset as one string, so something like "CDT-0500".
v{1,3}

The time zone short name.
vvvv

The time zone long name.
V{1,3}

The time zone short name.
VVVV

The time zone long name.

CAVEATS

Patterns without separators (like 'dMy' or 'yMd') are ambigous for some dates and might fail.

Quote from the Author of DateTime::Format::Strptime which also applies to this module:

"If your module uses this module to parse a known format: stop it. This module 
is clunky and slow because it can parse almost anything. Parsing a known 
format is not so difficult, is it? You'll make your module faster if you do. 
And you're not left at the whim of my potentially broken code."

SUPPORT

Please report any bugs or feature requests to datetime-format-cldr@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=DateTime::Format::CLDR. I will be notified and then you'll automatically be notified of the progress on your report as I make changes.

AUTHOR

Maroš Kollár
CPAN ID: MAROS
maros [at] k-1.com

L<http://www.revdev.at>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This module was written for Revdev http://www.revdev.at, a nice litte software company I run with Koki and Domm (http://search.cpan.org/~domm/).

COPYRIGHT

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.

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