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[% WRAPPER section
    title="SYNOPSIS"
-%]<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] USE date [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<pre>    # use current time and default format
    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<pre>    # specify time as seconds since epoch or 'h:m:s d-m-y' string
    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(960973980) [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format('4:20:36 21/12/2000') [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<pre>    # specify format
    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(mytime, '%H:%M:%S') [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<pre>    # specify locale
    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(date.now, '%a %d %b %y', 'en_GB') [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<pre>    # named parameters 
    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(mytime, format = '%H:%M:%S') [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(locale = 'en_GB') [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(time   = date.now, 
		   format = '%H:%M:%S', 
                   locale = 'en_GB) [% tt_end_tag %]
   
    # specify default format to plugin
    [% tt_start_tag %] USE date(format = '%H:%M:%S', locale = 'de_DE') [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format [% tt_end_tag %]
    ...</pre>
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[% WRAPPER section
    title="DESCRIPTION"
-%]<p>
The Date plugin provides an easy way to generate formatted time and date
strings by delegating to the POSIX strftime() routine.  
</p>
<p>
The plugin can be loaded via the familiar USE directive.
</p>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] USE date [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<p>
This creates a plugin object with the default name of 'date'.  An alternate
name can be specified as such:
</p>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] USE myname = date [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<p>
The plugin provides the format() method which accepts a time value, a
format string and a locale name.  All of these parameters are optional
with the current system time, default format ('%H:%M:%S %d-%b-%Y') and
current locale being used respectively, if undefined.  Default values
for the time, format and/or locale may be specified as named parameters 
in the USE directive.
</p>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] USE date(format = '%a %d-%b-%Y', locale = 'fr_FR') [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<p>
When called without any parameters, the format() method returns a string
representing the current system time, formatted by strftime() according 
to the default format and for the default locale (which may not be the
current one, if locale is set in the USE directive).
</p>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<p>
The plugin allows a time/date to be specified as seconds since the epoch,
as is returned by time().
</p>
<pre>    File last modified: [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(filemod_time) [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<p>
The time/date can also be specified as a string of the form 'h:m:s d/m/y'.
Any of the characters : / - or space may be used to delimit fields.
</p>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] USE day = date(format =&gt; '%A', locale =&gt; 'en_GB') [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] day.format('4:20:00 9-13-2000') [% tt_end_tag %]  </pre>
<p>
Output:
</p>
<pre>    Tuesday</pre>
<p>
A format string can also be passed to the format() method, and a locale
specification may follow that.
</p>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(filemod, '%d-%b-%Y') [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(filemod, '%d-%b-%Y', 'en_GB') [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<p>
A fourth parameter allows you to force output in GMT, in the case of 
seconds-since-the-epoch input:
</p>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(filemod, '%d-%b-%Y', 'en_GB', 1) [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<p>
Note that in this case, if the local time is not GMT, then also specifying
'%Z' (time zone) in the format parameter will lead to an extremely 
misleading result.
</p>
<p>
Any or all of these parameters may be named.  Positional parameters
should always be in the order ($time, $format, $locale).
</p>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(format =&gt; '%H:%M:%S') [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(time =&gt; filemod, format =&gt; '%H:%M:%S') [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(mytime, format =&gt; '%H:%M:%S') [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(mytime, format =&gt; '%H:%M:%S', locale =&gt; 'fr_FR') [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(mytime, format =&gt; '%H:%M:%S', gmt =&gt; 1) [% tt_end_tag %]
    ...etc...</pre>
<p>
The now() method returns the current system time in seconds since the 
epoch.  
</p>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] date.format(date.now, '%A') [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
<p>
The calc() method can be used to create an interface to the Date::Calc
module (if installed on your system).
</p>
<pre>    [% tt_start_tag %] calc = date.calc [% tt_end_tag %]
    [% tt_start_tag %] calc.Monday_of_Week(22, 2001).join('/') [% tt_end_tag %]</pre>
[%- END %]
[% WRAPPER section
    title="AUTHORS"
-%]<p>
Thierry-Michel Barral &lt;kktos@electron-libre.com&gt; wrote the original
plugin.
</p>
<p>
Andy Wardley &lt;abw@cre.canon.co.uk&gt; provided some minor
fixups/enhancements, a test script and documentation.
</p>
[%- END %]
[% WRAPPER section
    title="VERSION"
-%]<p>
2.55, distributed as part of the
Template Toolkit version 2.08, released on 30 July 2002.
</p>
[%- END %]
[% WRAPPER section
    title="COPYRIGHT"
-%]<p>
Copyright (C) 2000 Thierry-Michel Barral, Andy Wardley.
</p>
<p>
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
</p>
[%- END %]
[% WRAPPER section
    title="SEE ALSO"
-%]<p>
[% ttlink('Template::Plugin', 'Template::Plugin') -%], [% ttlink('POSIX', 'POSIX') -%]
</p>
[%- END %]