NAME

       Time::Piece::MySQL - Adds MySQL-specific methods to Time::Piece

SYNOPSIS

         use Time::Piece::MySQL;

         my $time = localtime;

         print $time->mysql_datetime;
         print $time->mysql_date;
         print $time->mysql_time;

         my $time = Time::Piece->from_mysql_datetime( $mysql_datetime );
         my $time = Time::Piece->from_mysql_date( $mysql_date );
         my $time = Time::Piece->from_mysql_timestamp( $mysql_timestamp );

DESCRIPTION

       Using this module instead of, or in addition to, "Time::Piece" adds a few MySQL-specific
       date-time methods to "Time::Piece" objects.

OBJECT METHODS

   mysql_date / mysql_time / mysql_datetime / mysql_timestamp
       Returns the date and/or time in a format suitable for use by MySQL.

CONSTRUCTORS

   from_mysql_date / from_mysql_datetime / from_mysql_timestamp
       Given a date, datetime, or timestamp value as returned from MySQL, these constructors
       return a new Time::Piece object.  If the value is NULL, they will retrun undef.

   CAVEAT
       "Time::Piece" itself only works with times in the Unix epoch, this module has the same
       limitation.  However, MySQL itself handles date and datetime columns from '1000-01-01' to
       '9999-12-31'.  Feeding in times outside of the Unix epoch to any of the constructors has
       unpredictable results.

       Also, MySQL doesn't validate dates (because your application should); it only checks that
       dates are in the right format.  So, your database might include dates like 2004-00-00 or
       2001-02-31.  Passing invalid dates to any of the constructors is a bad idea: on my system
       the former type (with zeros) returns undef (previous version used to die) while the latter
       returns a date in the following month.

AUTHOR

       Original author: Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

       Current maintainer: Marty Pauley <marty+perl@kasei.com>

COPYRIGHT

       (c) 2002 Dave Rolsky

       (c) 2004 Marty Pauley

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

SEE ALSO

       Time::Piece