NAME

       Time::y2038 - Versions of Perl's time functions which work beyond 2038

SYNOPSIS

           use Time::y2038;

           print scalar gmtime 2**52;  # Sat Dec  6 03:48:16 142715360

DESCRIPTION

       On many computers, Perl's time functions will not work past the year 2038.  This is a
       design fault in the underlying C libraries Perl uses.  Time::y2038 provides replacements
       for those functions which will work accurately +/1 142 million years.

       This only imports the functions into your namespace.  To replace it everywhere, see
       Time::y2038::Everywhere.

       Replaces the following functions:

       gmtime()

       See "gmtime" in perlfunc for details.

       localtime()

       See "localtime" in perlfunc for details.

       timegm()

           my $time = timegm($sec, $min, $hour, $month_day, $month, $year);

       The inverse of "gmtime()", takes a date and returns the coorsponding $time (number of
       seconds since Midnight, January 1st, 1970 GMT).  All values are the same as "gmtime()" so
       $month is 0..11 (January is 0) and the $year is years since 1900 (2008 is 108).

           # June 4, 1906 03:02:01 GMT
           my $time = timegm(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);

       timegm() can take two additional arguments which are always ignored.  This lets you feed
       the results from gmtime() back into timegm() without having to strip the arguments off.

       The following is always true:

           timegm(gmtime($time)) == $time;

       timelocal()

           my $time = timelocal($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $month, $year);
           my $time = timelocal($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $month, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst);

       Like "timegm()", but interprets the date in the current time zone.

       "timelocal()" will normally figure out if daylight savings time is in effect, but if
       $isdst is given this will override that check.  This is mostly useful to resolve ambiguous
       times around "fall back" when the hour between 1am and 2am occurs twice.

           # Sun Nov  4 00:59:59 2007
           print timelocal(59, 59, 0, 4, 10, 107);  # 1194163199

           # Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007 DST, one second later
           print timelocal(0, 0, 1, 4, 10, 107, undef, undef, 1);  # 1194163200

           # Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007 no DST, one hour later
           print timelocal(0, 0, 1, 4, 10, 107, undef, undef, 0);  # 1194166800

       $wday and $yday are ignored.  They are only there for compatibility with the return value
       of "localtime()".

LIMITATIONS

       The safe range of times is +/ 2**52 (about 142 million years).

       Although the underlying time library can handle times from -2**63 to 2**63-1 (about +/-
       292 billion years) Perl uses floating point numbers internally and so accuracy degrates
       after 2**52.

BUGS & FEEDBACK

       See http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Time-y2038 to report and view bugs.

       If you like the module, please drop the author an email.

       The latest version of this module can be found at http://y2038.googlecode.com/ and the
       repository is at http://y2038.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ in perl/Time-y2038.  You have to
       check out the whole repository because there are symlinks.

AUTHOR

       Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>

LICENSE & COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2008-2010 Michael G Schwern

       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

SEE ALSO

       Time::y2038::Everywhere overrides localtime() and gmtime() across the whole program.

       The y2038 project at http://y2038.googlecode.com/

       <http://xkcd.com/376/>