plucky (3) Email::Date::Format.3pm.gz

Provided by: libemail-date-format-perl_1.008-1_all bug

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>


       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.