NAME

       DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS - Convert DateTimes to/from Mac OS epoch seconds

SYNOPSIS

         use DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS;

         my $dt = DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS->parse_datetime( 1051488000 );
         DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS->format_datetime($dt);
          # 1051488000

         my $formatter = DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS->new();

         my $dt2 = $formatter->parse_datetime( 1051488000 );

         $formatter->format_datetime($dt2);
          # 1051488000

DESCRIPTION

       This module can convert a DateTime object (or any object that can be converted to a
       DateTime object) to the number of seconds since the Mac OS epoch.

       Note that the Mac OS epoch is defined in the local time zone. This means that these two
       pieces of code will print the same number of seconds, even though they represent two
       datetimes 6 hours apart:

           $dt = DateTime->new( year => 2003, month => 5, day => 2,
                                time_zone => 'Europe/Amsterdam' );
           print $formatter->format_datetime($dt);

           $dt = DateTime->new( year => 2003, month => 5, day => 2,
                                time_zone => 'America/Chicago' );
           print $formatter->format_datetime($dt);

       Mac OS X is a Unix system, and uses the Unix epoch (1970-01-01T00:00:00). Use
       DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix instead.

METHODS

       Most of the methods are the same as those in DateTime::Format::Epoch.  The only difference
       is the constructor.

       •   new()

           Constructor of the formatter/parser object. It has no parameters.

SUPPORT

       Support for this module is provided via the datetime@perl.org email list. See
       http://lists.perl.org/ for more details.

AUTHOR

       Eugene van der Pijll <pijll@gmx.net>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2003 Eugene van der Pijll.  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

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