NAME
Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime() function
SYNOPSIS
$gm
=
gmtime
();
printf
"The day in Greenwich is %s\n"
,
(
qw(Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun)
)[
$gm
->wday() ];
gmtime
();
printf
"The day in Greenwich is %s\n"
,
(
qw(Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun)
)[
$tm_wday
];
$now
= gmctime();
$date_string
= gmctime(
stat
(
$file
)->mtime);
DESCRIPTION
This module's default exports override the core gmtime() function, replacing it with a version that returns "Time::tm" objects. This object has methods that return the similarly named structure field name from the C's tm structure from time.h; namely sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year, wday, yday, and isdst.
You may also import all the structure fields directly into your namespace as regular variables using the :FIELDS import tag. (Note that this still overrides your core functions.) Access these fields as variables named with a preceding tm_
in front their method names. Thus, $tm_obj->mday()
corresponds to $tm_mday if you import the fields.
The gmctime() function provides a way of getting at the scalar sense of the original CORE::gmtime() function.
To access this functionality without the core overrides, pass the use
an empty import list, and then access function functions with their full qualified names. On the other hand, the built-ins are still available via the CORE::
pseudo-package.
NOTE
While this class is currently implemented using the Class::Struct module to build a struct-like class, you shouldn't rely upon this.
AUTHOR
Tom Christiansen