NAME

DateTime::Functions - Procedural interface to DateTime functions

VERSION

This document describes version 0.01 of DateTime::Functions, released October 31, 2003.

SYNOPSIS

    use DateTime::Functions;
    print today->year;
    print now->strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S");

DESCRIPTION

This module simply exports all class methods of DateTime into the caller's namespace.

METHODS

Unless otherwise noted, all methods correspond to the same-named class method in DateTime. Please see DateTime for which parameters are supported.

Constructors

All constructors can die when invalid parameters are given. They all return DateTime objects, except for duration() which returns a DateTime::Duration object.

• datetime( ... )

  Equivalent to DateTime->new( ... ).

• duration( ... )

  Equivalent to DateTime::Duration->new( ... ).

• from_epoch( epoch => $epoch, ... )
• now( ... )
• today( ... )
• from_object( object => $object, ... )
• last_day_of_month( ... )
• from_day_of_year( ... )

Utility Functions

• default_locale( $locale )

  Equivalent to DateTime->DefaultLocale( $locale ).

• compare
• compare_ignore_floating

SEE ALSO

DateTime

AUTHORS

Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2003 by Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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