NAME

Acme::Time::Baby - Tell time little children can understand

SYNOPSIS

    use Acme::Time::Baby;
    print babytime;           #  Prints current time.

    use Acme::Time::Baby language => 'du';
    print babytime "10:15";   #  Prints a quarter past ten in a way
                              #  little Dutch children can understand.

DESCRIPTION

Using this module gives you the function babytime, which will return the time in the form The big hand is on the ten and the little hand is on the three. If no argument to babytime is given, the current time is used, otherwise a time of the form hh:mm can be passed. Both 12 and 24 hour clocks are supported.

When using the module, various options can be given. The following options can be passed:

language LANG

The language the time should be told in. The following languages are currently supported:

  en             English (this is the default)
  br             Brazilian Portuguese.
  ceb            Cebuano (Filipine dialect)
  de             German.
  de_ch          Swiss German.
  du             Dutch.
  es             Spanish.
  fr             French.
  hr             Croatian.
  it             Italian.
  no             Norwegian.
  se             Swedish.
  swedish chef   Swedish Chef (from the Muppets).
  warez          l44+.

If no language argument is given, English is used.

format STRING

This is the format used to represent the time. It will be passed to sprintf, and it should have two %s formatting codes. The other two arguments to sprintf are the position of the minute hand (the big hand) and the hour hand (the little hand). If you have perl 5.8 or above, you could use %2$s and %1$s to reverse the order.

number ARRAYREF

An array with the names of the numbers one to twelve, to be used in the formatted time.

noimport EXPR

By default, the sub babytime will be exported to the calling package. If for some reason the calling package does not want to import the sub, there are two ways to prevent this. Either use use Acme::Time::Baby (), which will prevent Acme::Time::Baby::import to be called, or pass noimport followed by a true value as arguments to the use statement.

PACKAGE NAME

It has been said this package should be named 'Acme::Time::Toddler', because it's the language toddlers speak, and not babies.

However, the idea of this package is based on an X application the author saw more than 10 years before this package was written. It would display a clock, telling the current time, in a myriad of languages. One of the languages was babytalk, and used a language very similar to the one in this package. Hence the name of this package.

TODO

Support for more languages.

SEE ALSO

The current sources of this module are found on github, git://github.com/Abigail/acme--time--baby.git.

AUTHOR

Abigail, mailto:acme-time-baby@abigail.be.

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2002 - 2009, 2009 by Abigail.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install