NAME

       Email::Date::Format - produce RFC 2822 date strings

VERSION

       version 1.008

SYNOPSIS

         use Email::Date::Format qw(email_date);

         my $header = email_date($date->epoch);

         Email::Simple->create(
           header => [
             Date => $header,
           ],
           body => '...',
         );

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides a simple means for generating an RFC 2822 compliant datetime string.
       (In case you care, they're not RFC 822 dates, because they use a four digit year, which is
       not allowed in RFC 822.)

PERL VERSION

       This library should run on perls released even a long time ago.  It should work on any
       version of perl released in the last five years.

       Although it may work on older versions of perl, no guarantee is made that the minimum
       required version will not be increased.  The version may be increased for any reason, and
       there is no promise that patches will be accepted to lower the minimum required perl.

FUNCTIONS

   email_date
         my $date = email_date; # now
         my $date = email_date( time - 60*60 ); # one hour ago

       "email_date" accepts an epoch value, such as the one returned by "time".  It returns a
       string representing the date and time of the input, as specified in RFC 2822. If no input
       value is provided, the current value of "time" is used.

       "email_date" is exported only if requested.

   email_gmdate
         my $date = email_gmdate;

       "email_gmdate" is identical to "email_date", but it will return a string indicating the
       time in Greenwich Mean Time, rather than local time.

       "email_gmdate" is exported only if requested.

AUTHORS

       •   Casey West

       •   Ricardo SIGNES <cpan@semiotic.systems>

CONTRIBUTORS

       •   bitcardbmw@lsmod.de <bitcardbmw@lsmod.de>

       •   Eric Sproul <esproul@omniti.com>

       •   Ricardo Signes <rjbs@semiotic.systems>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2004 by Casey West.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.