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NAME
    DateTime::Infinite - Infinite past and future DateTime objects

VERSION
    version 1.55

SYNOPSIS
      my $future = DateTime::Infinite::Future->new;
      my $past   = DateTime::Infinite::Past->new;

DESCRIPTION
    This module provides two DateTime subclasses, "DateTime::Infinite::Future" and
    "DateTime::Infinite::Past".

    The objects are always in the "floating" timezone, and this cannot be changed.

METHODS
    The only constructor for these two classes is the "new" method, as shown in the "SYNOPSIS". This
    method takes no parameters.

    All "get" methods in this module simply return infinity, positive or negative. If the method is
    expected to return a string, it returns the string representation of positive or negative
    infinity used by your system. For example, on my system calling "$dt->year"> returns a number
    which when printed appears either "Inf" or "-Inf".

    This also applies to methods that are compound stringifications, which return the same strings
    even for things like "$dt->ymd" or "$dt->iso8601"

    The object is not mutable, so the "$dt->set", "$dt->set_time_zone", and "$dt->truncate" methods
    are all do-nothing methods that simply return the object they are called with.

    Obviously, the "$dt->is_finite" method returns false and the "$dt->is_infinite" method returns
    true.

SEE ALSO
    datetime AT perl.org mailing list

BUGS
    There seem to be lots of problems when dealing with infinite numbers on Win32. This may be a
    problem with this code, Perl, or Win32's IEEE math implementation. Either way, the module may
    not be well-behaved on Win32 operating systems.

    Bugs may be submitted at <https://github.com/houseabsolute/DateTime.pm/issues>.

    There is a mailing list available for users of this distribution, <mailto:datetime AT perl.org>.

SOURCE
    The source code repository for DateTime can be found at
    <https://github.com/houseabsolute/DateTime.pm>.

AUTHOR
    Dave Rolsky <autarch AT urth.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is Copyright (c) 2003 - 2021 by Dave Rolsky.

    This is free software, licensed under:

      The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)

    The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this distribution.