NAME

       Mail::Field::Date - a date header field

INHERITANCE

        Mail::Field::Date
          is a Mail::Field

SYNOPSIS

         use HTTP::Date 'time2iso';
         my $field = Mail::Field->new(Date => time2iso());

DESCRIPTION

       Represents one "Date" header field.

METHODS

   Constructors
       Mail::Field::Date->combine(FIELDS)
           See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

       Mail::Field::Date->extract(TAG, HEAD [, INDEX ])
           See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

       Mail::Field::Date->new(TAG [, STRING | OPTIONS])
           See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

   "Fake" constructors
       $obj->create(OPTIONS)
           See ""Fake" constructors" in Mail::Field

       $obj->parse()
           See ""Fake" constructors" in Mail::Field

   Accessors
       $obj->set(OPTIONS)
            -Option --Default
             Time     undef
             TimeStr  undef

           Time => SECONDS
           TimeStr => STRING
             A string acceptable to Date::Parse.

       $obj->stringify()
           See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

       $obj->tag()
       Mail::Field::Date->tag()
           See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

   Smart accessors
       $obj->text([STRING])
           See "Smart accessors" in Mail::Field

       $obj->time([TIME])
           Query (or change) the TIME (as stored in the field) in seconds.

DIAGNOSTICS

       Error: Undefined subroutine <method> called
           Mail::Field  objects  use  autoloading to compile new functionality.  Apparently, the mehod called is
           not implemented for the specific class of the field object.

SEE ALSO

       This module is part of the MailTools distribution, http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.

AUTHORS

       The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr.  Later, Mark Overmeer took  over  maintenance  without
       commitment to further development.

       Mail::Cap   by   Gisle  Aas  <aas@oslonett.no>.   Mail::Field::AddrList  by  Peter  Orbaek  <poe@cit.dk>.
       Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>.  For other contributors see ChangeLog.

LICENSE

       Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2007 Mark Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under  the  same  terms  as  Perl
       itself.  See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

perl v5.14.2                                       2012-12-21                             Mail::Field::Date(3pm)