NAME

       DateTime::Format::MySQL - Parse and format MySQL dates and times

SYNOPSIS

         use DateTime::Format::MySQL;

         my $dt = DateTime::Format::MySQL->parse_datetime( '2003-01-16 23:12:01' );

         # 2003-01-16 23:12:01
         DateTime::Format::MySQL->format_datetime($dt);

DESCRIPTION

       This module understands the formats used by MySQL for its DATE, DATETIME, TIME, and
       TIMESTAMP data types.  It can be used to parse these formats in order to create DateTime
       objects, and it can take a DateTime object and produce a string representing it in the
       MySQL format.

METHODS

       This class offers the following methods.  All of the parsing methods set the returned
       DateTime object's time zone to the floating time zone, because MySQL does not provide time
       zone information.

       ·   parse_datetime($string)

       ·   parse_date($string)

       ·   parse_timestamp($string)

           Given a value of the appropriate type, this method will return a new "DateTime"
           object.  The time zone for this object will always be the floating time zone, because
           by MySQL stores the local datetime, not UTC.

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

       ·   format_date($datetime)

       ·   format_time($datetime)

       ·   format_datetime($datetime)

           Given a "DateTime" object, this methods returns an appropriately formatted string.

SUPPORT

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

AUTHOR

       Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2003 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.

       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/