NAME

       DateTime::Format::W3CDTF - Parse and format W3CDTF datetime strings

VERSION

       This document describes DateTime::Format::W3CDTF version 0.08

SYNOPSIS

         use DateTime::Format::W3CDTF;

         my $w3c = DateTime::Format::W3CDTF->new(strict => 1);
         my $dt = $w3c->parse_datetime( '2003-02-15T13:50:05-05:00' );

         # 2003-02-15T13:50:05-05:00
         $w3c->format_datetime($dt);

DESCRIPTION

       This module understands the W3CDTF date/time format, an ISO 8601 profile, defined at
       http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime.  This format as the native date format of RSS 1.0.

       It can be used to parse these formats in order to create the appropriate objects.

METHODS

       This API is currently experimental and may change in the future.

       •   new()

           Returns a new W3CDTF parser object.  Accepts a single "strict" option:

             DateTime::Format::W3CDTF->new(strict => 1);

           If true, parse_datetime() and format_datetime() will only accept and return strings in
           W3CDTF format, respectively.  In particular, the W3CDTF format requires all time
           components to have timezones.

           If false, timezones are optional.

       •   parse_datetime($string)

           Given a W3CDTF datetime string, this method will return a new "DateTime" object.

           If given an improperly formatted string, this method may die.

       •   format_datetime($datetime)

           Given a "DateTime" object, this methods returns a W3CDTF datetime string.

           NOTE: As of version 0.4, format_datetime no longer attempts to truncate datetimes
           without a time component.  This is due to the fact that "DateTime" doesn't distinguish
           between a date with no time component, and midnight.

       •   format_date($datetime)

           Given a "DateTime" object, return a W3CDTF datetime string without the time component.

SUPPORT

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

       Please submit bugs to the CPAN RT system at
       http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=datetime-format-w3cdtf or via email at
       bug-datetime-format-w3cdtf@rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

       Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

CREDITS

       This module is maintained by Gregory Todd Williams <gwilliams@cpan.org>.  It was
       originally created by Kellan Elliott-McCrea <kellan@protest.net>.

       This module was inspired by DateTime::Format::ICal

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2009 David Rolsky.  All rights reserved.  This program is free software; you
       can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       Copyright (c) 2003 Kellan Elliott-McCrea

       Portions of the code in this distribution are derived from other works.  Please see the
       CREDITS file for more details.

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

SEE ALSO

       datetime@perl.org mailing list

       http://datetime.perl.org/