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NAME
    DateTime::Format::W3CDTF - Parse and format W3CDTF datetime strings

VERSION
    This document describes DateTime::Format::W3CDTF version 0.08

SYNOPSIS
      use DateTime::Format::W3CDTF;

      my $w3c = DateTime::Format::W3CDTF->new(strict => 1);
      my $dt = $w3c->parse_datetime( '2003-02-15T13:50:05-05:00' );

      # 2003-02-15T13:50:05-05:00
      $w3c->format_datetime($dt);

DESCRIPTION
    This module understands the W3CDTF date/time format, an ISO 8601 profile, defined at
    http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime. This format as the native date format of RSS 1.0.

    It can be used to parse these formats in order to create the appropriate objects.

METHODS
    This API is currently experimental and may change in the future.

    *   new()

        Returns a new W3CDTF parser object. Accepts a single "strict" option:

          DateTime::Format::W3CDTF->new(strict => 1);

        If true, parse_datetime() and format_datetime() will only accept and return strings in
        W3CDTF format, respectively. In particular, the W3CDTF format requires all time components
        to have timezones.

        If false, timezones are optional.

    *   parse_datetime($string)

        Given a W3CDTF datetime string, this method will return a new "DateTime" object.

        If given an improperly formatted string, this method may die.

    *   format_datetime($datetime)

        Given a "DateTime" object, this methods returns a W3CDTF datetime string.

        NOTE: As of version 0.4, format_datetime no longer attempts to truncate datetimes without a
        time component. This is due to the fact that "DateTime" doesn't distinguish between a date
        with no time component, and midnight.

    *   format_date($datetime)

        Given a "DateTime" object, return a W3CDTF datetime string without the time component.

SUPPORT
    Support for this module is provided via the datetime AT perl.org email list. See
    http://datetime.perl.org/?MailingList for details.

    Please submit bugs to the CPAN RT system at
    http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=datetime-format-w3cdtf or via email at
    bug-datetime-format-w3cdtf AT rt.org.

AUTHOR
    Dave Rolsky <autarch AT urth.org>

CREDITS
    This module is maintained by Gregory Todd Williams <gwilliams AT cpan.org>. It was originally
    created by Kellan Elliott-McCrea <kellan AT protest.net>.

    This module was inspired by DateTime::Format::ICal

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2009 David Rolsky. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can
    redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

    Copyright (c) 2003 Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    Portions of the code in this distribution are derived from other works. Please see the CREDITS
    file for more details.

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

SEE ALSO
    datetime AT perl.org mailing list

    http://datetime.perl.org/