phpman > perldoc > Time::Seconds(3perl)

NAME
    Time::Seconds - a simple API to convert seconds to other date values

SYNOPSIS
        use Time::Piece;
        use Time::Seconds;

        my $t = localtime;
        $t += ONE_DAY;

        my $t2 = localtime;
        my $s = $t - $t2;

        print "Difference is: ", $s->days, "\n";

DESCRIPTION
    This module is part of the Time::Piece distribution. It allows the user to find out the number
    of minutes, hours, days, weeks or years in a given number of seconds. It is returned by
    Time::Piece when you delta two Time::Piece objects.

    Time::Seconds also exports the following constants:

        ONE_DAY
        ONE_WEEK
        ONE_HOUR
        ONE_MINUTE
        ONE_MONTH
        ONE_YEAR
        ONE_FINANCIAL_MONTH
        LEAP_YEAR
        NON_LEAP_YEAR

    Since perl does not (yet?) support constant objects, these constants are in seconds only, so you
    cannot, for example, do this: "print ONE_WEEK->minutes;"

METHODS
    The following methods are available:

        my $val = Time::Seconds->new(SECONDS)
        $val->seconds;
        $val->minutes;
        $val->hours;
        $val->days;
        $val->weeks;
        $val->months;
        $val->financial_months; # 30 days
        $val->years;
        $val->pretty; # gives English representation of the delta

    The usual arithmetic (+,-,+=,-=) is also available on the objects.

    The methods make the assumption that there are 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 365.24225
    days in a year and 12 months in a year. (from The Calendar FAQ at
    http://www.tondering.dk/claus/calendar.html)

AUTHOR
    Matt Sergeant, matt AT sergeant.org

    Tobias Brox, tobiasb AT tobiasb.com

    Balázs Szabó (dLux), dlux AT kapu.hu

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    Copyright 2001, Larry Wall.

    This module is free software, you may distribute it under the same terms as Perl.

Bugs
    Currently the methods aren't as efficient as they could be, for reasons of clarity. This is
    probably a bad idea.