Time::Seconds(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Time::Seconds(3pm)
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
Balazs Szabo (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.
perl v5.38.2 2023-11-28 Time::Seconds(3pm)
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