NAME

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

VERSION

       version 1.005

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.)

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 <rjbs@cpan.org>

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.