Template::Plugin::Date - phpMan

NAME
    Template::Plugin::Date - Plugin to generate formatted date strings

SYNOPSIS
        [% USE date %]

        # use current time and default format
        [% date.format %]

        # specify time as seconds since epoch
        # or as a 'h:m:s d-m-y' or 'y-m-d h:m:s' string
        [% date.format(960973980) %]
        [% date.format('4:20:36 21/12/2000') %]
        [% date.format('2000/12/21 4:20:36') %]

        # specify format
        [% date.format(mytime, '%H:%M:%S') %]

        # specify locale
        [% date.format(date.now, '%a %d %b %y', 'en_GB') %]

        # named parameters
        [% date.format(mytime, format = '%H:%M:%S') %]
        [% date.format(locale = 'en_GB') %]
        [% date.format(time   = date.now,
                       format = '%H:%M:%S',
                       locale = 'en_GB) %]

        # specify default format to plugin
        [% USE date(format = '%H:%M:%S', locale = 'de_DE') %]

        [% date.format %]
        ...

DESCRIPTION
    The "Date" plugin provides an easy way to generate formatted time and
    date strings by delegating to the "POSIX" "strftime()" routine.

    The plugin can be loaded via the familiar USE directive.

        [% USE date %]

    This creates a plugin object with the default name of '"date"'. An
    alternate name can be specified as such:

        [% USE myname = date %]

    The plugin provides the "format()" method which accepts a time value, a
    format string and a locale name. All of these parameters are optional
    with the current system time, default format ('"%H:%M:%S %d-%b-%Y"') and
    current locale being used respectively, if undefined. Default values for
    the time, format and/or locale may be specified as named parameters in
    the "USE" directive.

        [% USE date(format = '%a %d-%b-%Y', locale = 'fr_FR') %]

    When called without any parameters, the "format()" method returns a
    string representing the current system time, formatted by "strftime()"
    according to the default format and for the default locale (which may
    not be the current one, if locale is set in the "USE" directive).

        [% date.format %]

    The plugin allows a time/date to be specified as seconds since the
    epoch, as is returned by "time()".

        File last modified: [% date.format(filemod_time) %]

    The time/date can also be specified as a string of the form "h:m:s
    d/m/y" or "y/m/d h:m:s". Any of the characters : / - or space may be
    used to delimit fields.

        [% USE day = date(format => '%A', locale => 'en_GB') %]
        [% day.format('4:20:00 9-13-2000') %]

    Output:

        Tuesday

    A format string can also be passed to the "format()" method, and a
    locale specification may follow that.

        [% date.format(filemod, '%d-%b-%Y') %]
        [% date.format(filemod, '%d-%b-%Y', 'en_GB') %]

    A fourth parameter allows you to force output in GMT, in the case of
    seconds-since-the-epoch input:

        [% date.format(filemod, '%d-%b-%Y', 'en_GB', 1) %]

    Note that in this case, if the local time is not GMT, then also
    specifying '%Z' (time zone) in the format parameter will lead to an
    extremely misleading result.

    Any or all of these parameters may be named. Positional parameters
    should always be in the order "($time, $format, $locale)".

        [% date.format(format => '%H:%M:%S') %]
        [% date.format(time => filemod, format => '%H:%M:%S') %]
        [% date.format(mytime, format => '%H:%M:%S') %]
        [% date.format(mytime, format => '%H:%M:%S', locale => 'fr_FR') %]
        [% date.format(mytime, format => '%H:%M:%S', gmt => 1) %]
        ...etc...

    The "now()" method returns the current system time in seconds since the
    epoch.

        [% date.format(date.now, '%A') %]

    The "calc()" method can be used to create an interface to the
    "Date::Calc" module (if installed on your system).

        [% calc = date.calc %]
        [% calc.Monday_of_Week(22, 2001).join('/') %]

    The "manip()" method can be used to create an interface to the
    "Date::Manip" module (if installed on your system).

        [% manip = date.manip %]
        [% manip.UnixDate("Noon Yesterday","%Y %b %d %H:%M") %]

AUTHORS
    Thierry-Michel Barral wrote the original plugin.

    Andy Wardley provided some minor fixups/enhancements, a test script and
    documentation.

    Mark D. Mills cloned "Date::Manip" from the "Date::Calc" sub-plugin.

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Thierry-Michel Barral, Andy Wardley.

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

SEE ALSO
    Template::Plugin, POSIX