# Time::Seconds - phpMan

## 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@sergeant.org>

    Tobias Brox, <tobiasb@tobiasb.funcom.com>

    Balázs Szabó (dLux), <dlux@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.