NAME¶
DateTime::Format::MySQL - Parse and format MySQL dates and times
SYNOPSIS¶
use DateTime::Format::MySQL;
my $dt = DateTime::Format::MySQL->parse_datetime( '2003-01-16 23:12:01' );
# 2003-01-16 23:12:01
DateTime::Format::MySQL->format_datetime($dt);
DESCRIPTION¶
This module understands the formats used by MySQL for its DATE, DATETIME, 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 MySQL 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 MySQL
does not provide time zone information.
- •
- parse_datetime($string)
- •
- parse_date($string)
- •
- parse_timestamp($string)
Given a value of the appropriate type, this method will return a new
"DateTime" object. The time zone for this object will always be
the floating time zone, because by MySQL stores the local datetime, not
UTC.
If given an improperly formatted string, this method may die.
- •
- format_date($datetime)
- •
- format_time($datetime)
- •
- format_datetime($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¶
Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (c) 2003 David Rolsky. All rights reserved. This program is free
software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this
module.
SEE ALSO¶
datetime@perl.org mailing list
http://datetime.perl.org/