NAME

       CGI::Untaint::date - validate a date

SYNOPSIS

         use CGI::Untaint;
         my $handler = CGI::Untaint->new($q->Vars);

         my $date = $handler->extract(-as_date => 'date');

DESCRIPTION

       is_valid

       This Input Handler verifies that it is dealing with a reasonable date. Reasonably means
       anything that Date::Manip thinks is sensible, so you could use any of (for example):
         "December 12, 2001"
         "12th December, 2001"
         "2001-12-12"
         "next Tuesday"
         "third Wednesday in March"

       See Date::Manip for much more information on what date formats are acceptable.

       The resulting date will be a Date::Simple object.  Date::Simple for more information on
       this.

       date_format

       By default ambiguous dates of the format 08/09/2001 will be treated as UK style (i.e. 8th
       September rather than 9th August)

       If you want to change this, subclass it and override date_format()

WARNING

       Date::Manip does not play nicely with taint mode. In order to work around this we locally
       clobber Date::Manip's 'timezone' code. As we're only interested in dates rather than
       times, this shouldn't be much of an issue. If it is, then please let me know!

SEE ALSO

       Date::Simple. Date::Manip.

AUTHOR

       Tony Bowden

BUGS and QUERIES

       Please direct all correspondence regarding this module to:
         bug-CGI-Untaint-date@rt.cpan.org

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE

       Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Tony Bowden. All rights reserved.

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