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- <H1><A NAME="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</A></H1>
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- use Date::Parse;
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- $time = str2time($date);</PRE>
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- ($ss,$mm,$hh,$day,$month,$year,$zone) = strptime($date);</PRE>
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- <H1><A NAME="description">DESCRIPTION</A></H1>
- <P><CODE>Date::Parse</CODE> provides two routines for parsing date strings into time values.</P>
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- <DT><STRONG><A NAME="item_str2time">str2time(DATE [, ZONE])</A></STRONG><BR>
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- <A HREF="#item_str2time"><CODE>str2time</CODE></A> parses <CODE>DATE</CODE> and returns a unix time value, or undef upon failure.
- <CODE>ZONE</CODE>, if given, specifies the timezone to assume when parsing if the
- date string does not specify a timezome.
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- <DT><STRONG><A NAME="item_strptime">strptime(DATE [, ZONE])</A></STRONG><BR>
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- <A HREF="#item_strptime"><CODE>strptime</CODE></A> takes the same arguments as str2time but returns an array of
- values <CODE>($ss,$mm,$hh,$day,$month,$year,$zone)</CODE>. Elements are only defined
- if they could be extracted from the date string. The <CODE>$zone</CODE> element is
- the timezone offset in seconds from GMT. An empty array is returned upon
- failure.
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- <H1><A NAME="multilanguage support">MULTI-LANGUAGE SUPPORT</A></H1>
- <P>Date::Parse is capable of parsing dates in several languages, these are
- English, French, German and Italian. Changing the language is done via
- a static method call, for example</P>
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- Date::Parse->language('German');</PRE>
- <P>will cause Date::Parse to attempt to parse any subsequent dates in German.</P>
- <P>This is only a first pass, I am considering changing this to be</P>
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- $lang = Date::Language->new('German');
- $lang->str2time("25 Jun 1996 21:09:55 +0100");</PRE>
- <P>I am open to suggestions on this.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="author">AUTHOR</A></H1>
- <P>Graham Barr <<A HREF="mailto:Graham.Barr@pobox.com">Graham.Barr@pobox.com</A>></P>
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- <H1><A NAME="copyright">COPYRIGHT</A></H1>
- <P>Copyright (c) 1995-8 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free
- software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms
- as Perl itself.</P>
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