NAME
Media::DateTime - A simple module to extract the timestamp from media
files in an flexible manner.
VERSION
version 0.48
SYNOPSIS
use DateTime;
use Media::DateTime;
my $dt = Media::DateTime->datetime( $file );
# or more cleanly OO
my $dater = Media::DateTime->new;
my $dt = $dater->datetime( $file );
DESCRIPTION
Provides a very simple, but highly extensible method of extracting the
creation date and time from a media file (any file really). The base
module comes with support for JPEG files that store the creation date in
the exif header.
Plugins can be written to support any file format. See the
"Media::DateTime::JPEG" module for an example.
If no plugin is found for a particular file (or the plugin returns a
false vale) the file creation date as specified by the O/S is used.
Returns a "DateTime" object.
METHODs
new
Constructor that returns a "Media::DateTime" object. Methods can be
called on either the class or an instance.
my $dt = Media::DateTime->new;
datetime
Takes a file as an arguement and returns a "DateTime" object
representing its creation date. Falls back to the creation date
specified by the filesystem if no plugin is available.
my $dt = Media::DateTime->datetime( $file );
# or
my $dt = $dater->datetime( $file );
SEE ALSO
See the excellent "DateTime" module which simplifies the handling of
dates. See "Module::Pluggable" and "Module::Pluggable::Ordered" which
are used to implement the plugin system. "Image::Info" is used to
extract data from JPEG files for the "Media::DateTime::JPEG" plugin.
Make sure you have configured the local time zone on your machine. See
"DateTime::TimeZone::Local" for information on how the timezone is
determined.
AUTHOR
unknown
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2014 by unknown.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.