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Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime() function
use Time::gmtime; $gm = gmtime(); printf "The day in Greenwich is %s\n", (qw(Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun))[ gm->wday() ]; use Time::gmtime w(:FIELDS; printf "The day in Greenwich is %s\n", (qw(Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun))[ gm_wday() ]; $now = gmctime(); use Time::gmtime; use File::stat; $date_string = gmctime(stat($file)->mtime);
This module's default exports override the core gmtime() 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 time.h
; namely sec, min, hour,
mday, mon, year, wday, yday, and isdst.
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 tm_
in front their method names. Thus,
$tm_obj->mday()
corresponds to $tm_mday if you import the fields.
The gmctime() function provides a way of getting at the scalar sense of the original CORE::gmtime() function.
To access this functionality without the core overrides,
pass the use
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 CORE::
pseudo-package.
While this class is currently implemented using the Class::Struct module to build a struct-like class, you shouldn't rely upon this.
Tom Christiansen