NAME¶
DateTime::Format::DB2 - Parse and format DB2 dates and times
SYNOPSIS¶
use DateTime::Format::DB2;
my $dt = DateTime::Format::DB2->parse_timestamp( '2003-01-16-23.12.01.300000' );
# 2003-01-16-23.12.01.300000
DateTime::Format::DB2->format_timestamp($dt);
DESCRIPTION¶
This module understands the formats used by DB2 for its DATE, TIME, and
TIMESTAMP data types. It can be used to parse these formats in order to create
DateTime objects, and it can take a DateTime object and produce a string
representing it in the DB2 format.
METHODS¶
This class offers the following methods. All of the parsing methods set the
returned DateTime object's time zone to the floating time zone, because DB2
does not provide time zone information.
- * parse_time($string)
- * parse_date($string)
- * parse_timestamp($string)
- Given a value of the appropriate type, this method will return a new
"DateTime" object. The time zone for this object will always be
the floating time zone, because by DB2 stores the local datetime, not UTC.
If given an improperly formatted string, this method may die.
- * format_date($datetime)
- * format_time($datetime)
- * format_timestamp($datetime)
- Given a "DateTime" object, this methods returns an appropriately
formatted string.
SUPPORT¶
Support for this module is provided via the datetime@perl.org email list. See
http://lists.perl.org/ for more details.
AUTHOR¶
Jess Robinson <castaway@desert-island.demon.co.uk>
This module was shamelessly cloned from Dave Rolsky's DateTime::Format::MySQL
module.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (c) 2005 Jess Robinson. All rights reserved. This program is free
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
Perl itself.
SEE ALSO¶
datetime@perl.org mailing list
http://datetime.perl.org/