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Time::localtime(3)     Perl Programmers Reference Guide     Time::localtime(3)



NAME
       Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime()
       function

SYNOPSIS
        use Time::localtime;
        printf(1,3,1 builtins) "Year is %d\n", localtime->year() + 1900;

        $now = ctime();

        use Time::localtime;
        use File::stat;
        $date_string = ctime(stat(1,2)($file(1,n))->mtime);

DESCRIPTION
       This module's default exports override the core localtime() function,
       replacing it with a version(1,3,5) that returns "Time::tm" objects.  This
       object has methods that return the similarly named(5,8) 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 names-
       pace as regular variables using the :FIELDS import tag.  (Note that
       this still overrides your core functions.)  Access these fields as
       variables named(5,8) with a preceding "tm_" in(1,8) front their method names.
       Thus, "$tm_obj->mday()" corresponds to $tm_mday if(3,n) you import the
       fields.

       The ctime() function provides a way of getting at the scalar sense of
       the original CORE::localtime() function.

       To access(2,5) this functionality without the core overrides, pass the "use"
       an empty import list, and then access(2,5) function functions with their
       full qualified names.  On the other hand, the built-ins are still
       available via the "CORE::" pseudo-package.

NOTE
       While this class is currently implemented using the Class::Struct mod-
       ule to build a struct-like class, you shouldn't rely upon this.

AUTHOR
       Tom Christiansen



perl v5.8.5                       2001-09-21                Time::localtime(3)