NAME

Time::Beat - Module to convert between standard time and Swatch ".beat" time.

DESCRIPTION

Time::Beat is a module to convert normal time to and from .beats, of which there are a thousand in a day. It can change normal time in time() format to .beats, and .beats into either 24-hour or 12-hour normal time.

SYNOPSIS

    use Time::Beat qw(beat time24 time12);

    my $time_in_beats = beats($time);

    my $beats_in_24hr_time = time24($beat);

    my $beats_in_12hr_time = time12($beat);

METHODS

There are three methods in Time::Beat.

• beats($time)

  beats will give you the current time in .beats if you do not specify a time string. If you specify a string in time() format it will return that particular time in .beats. The basic algorithm for doing this is to take the time in GMT+1 hour, convert it into seconds, and divide by 86.4.

• time24($beat)

  time24 takes a 3-digit beat time and outputs a 24-hour time along the lines of "12:34:56". The hours will have leading noughts.

• time12($beat)

  time12 takes a 3-digit beat time and outputs a 12-hour time along the lines of "12:34:56 am" or "12:34:56 pm". Hours do not have leading noughts.

CHANGES

Important: As of v1.11 the method names have changed. The former method names, beattime, timebeat24 and timebeat12 will still work, but they have been deprecated, and will be removed at some point in the future.

AUTHOR

Earle Martin <emartin@cpan.org>. Originally written by James Duncan <jduncan@fotango.com>.

LICENSE

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

SEE ALSO

• DateTime::Format::IBeat

  This module by Iain Truskett <spoon@cpan.org> does much the same thing but in an OO fashion, and is part of the DateTime project; if you need something more sophisticated, I would suggest you look into that. My thanks also to Iain for contributing patches to this module.

• The .beat home page

  http://www.swatch.com/itime_tools/itime.php