# Date::Language - Language specific date formating and parsing - perldoc - [phpMan]

## NAME
    [Date::Language](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Date%3A%3ALanguage/markdown) - Language specific date formating and parsing

## SYNOPSIS
      use [Date::Language](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Date%3A%3ALanguage/markdown);

      my $lang = [Date::Language](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Date%3A%3ALanguage/markdown)->new('German');
      $lang->time2str("%a %b %e %T %Y\n", time);

## DESCRIPTION
    [Date::Language](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Date%3A%3ALanguage/markdown) provides objects to parse and format dates for specific languages. Available
    languages are

      Afar                    French                  Russian_cp1251
      Amharic                 Gedeo                   Russian_koi8r
      Austrian                German                  Sidama
      Brazilian               Greek                   Somali
      Chinese                 Hungarian               Spanish
      Chinese_GB              Icelandic               Swedish
      Czech                   Italian                 Tigrinya
      Danish                  Norwegian               TigrinyaEritrean
      Dutch                   Oromo                   TigrinyaEthiopian
      English                 Romanian                Turkish
      Finnish                 Russian                 Bulgarian
      Occitan

## METHODS
    time2str
        See "time2str" in [Date::Format](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Date%3A%3AFormat/markdown)

    strftime
        See "strftime" in [Date::Format](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Date%3A%3AFormat/markdown)

    ctime
        See "ctime" in [Date::Format](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Date%3A%3AFormat/markdown)

    asctime
        See "asctime" in [Date::Format](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Date%3A%3AFormat/markdown)

    str2time
        See "str2time" in [Date::Parse](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Date%3A%3AParse/markdown)

    strptime
        See "strptime" in [Date::Parse](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Date%3A%3AParse/markdown)