.\" -*- mode: troff; coding: utf-8 -*-
.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 5.01 (Pod::Simple 3.43)
.\"
.\" Standard preamble:
.\" ========================================================================
.de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP)
.if t .sp .5v
.if n .sp
..
.de Vb \" Begin verbatim text
.ft CW
.nf
.ne \\$1
..
.de Ve \" End verbatim text
.ft R
.fi
..
.\" \*(C` and \*(C' are quotes in nroff, nothing in troff, for use with C<>.
.ie n \{\
.    ds C` ""
.    ds C' ""
'br\}
.el\{\
.    ds C`
.    ds C'
'br\}
.\"
.\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform.
.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
.el       .ds Aq '
.\"
.\" If the F register is >0, we'll generate index entries on stderr for
.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index
.\" entries marked with X<> in POD.  Of course, you'll have to process the
.\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion.
.\"
.\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'.
.de IX
..
.nr rF 0
.if \n(.g .if rF .nr rF 1
.if (\n(rF:(\n(.g==0)) \{\
.    if \nF \{\
.        de IX
.        tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2"
..
.        if !\nF==2 \{\
.            nr % 0
.            nr F 2
.        \}
.    \}
.\}
.rr rF
.\" ========================================================================
.\"
.IX Title "Time::localtime 3perl"
.TH Time::localtime 3perl 2023-11-30 "perl v5.38.2" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide"
.\" For nroff, turn off justification.  Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
.if n .ad l
.nh
.SH NAME
Time::localtime \- by\-name interface to Perl's built\-in localtime() function
.SH SYNOPSIS
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 2
\& use Time::localtime;
\& printf "Year is %d\en", localtime\->year() + 1900;
\&
\& $now = ctime();
\&
\& use Time::localtime;
\& use File::stat;
\& $date_string = ctime(stat($file)\->mtime);
.Ve
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This module's default exports override the core \fBlocaltime()\fR function,
replacing it with a version that returns "Time::tm" objects.
This object has methods that return the similarly named structure field
name from the C's tm structure from \fItime.h\fR; namely sec, min, hour,
mday, mon, year, wday, yday, and isdst.
.PP
You may also import all the structure fields directly into your namespace
as regular variables using the :FIELDS import tag.  (Note that this still
overrides your core functions.)  Access these fields as
variables named with a preceding \f(CW\*(C`tm_\*(C'\fR in front their method names.
Thus, \f(CW\*(C`$tm_obj\->mday()\*(C'\fR corresponds to \f(CW$tm_mday\fR if you import
the fields.
.PP
The \fBctime()\fR function provides a way of getting at the 
scalar sense of the original \fBCORE::localtime()\fR function.
.PP
To access this functionality without the core overrides,
pass the \f(CW\*(C`use\*(C'\fR an empty import list, and then access
function functions with their full qualified names.
On the other hand, the built-ins are still available
via the \f(CW\*(C`CORE::\*(C'\fR pseudo-package.
.SH NOTE
.IX Header "NOTE"
While this class is currently implemented using the Class::Struct
module to build a struct-like class, you shouldn't rely upon this.
.SH AUTHOR
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Tom Christiansen