Date::Formatter 0.09

Date::Formatter Perl module is a simple Date and Time formatting object.

SYNOPSIS

use Date::Formatter;

# create a Date::Formatter object with the current date and time.
my $date = Date::Formatter->now();

# create a formatter routine for this object
# see formatter mini-language documentation below
$date->createDateFormatter("(hh):(mm):(ss) (MM)/(DD)/(YYYY)");

print $date; # print date in this format -> 12:56:03 4/12/2004

# get the formatter for use with other objects
my $formatter = $date->getDateFormatter();

# create an interval of time
my $interval = Date::Formatter->createTimeInterval(years => 1, days => 2, minutes => 15);

# re-use the formater from above
$interval->setDateFormatter($formatter);

print $interval; # print date in this format -> 12:56:03 4/12/2004

# use overloaded operators
my $future_date = $date + $interval;

# sort the dates (again with the overload operator)
my @sorted_dates = sort { $a <=> $b } ($date, $interval, $future_date);

This module provides a fast and very flexible mini-language to be used in formatting dates and times. In order to make that useful though, we had to make a fully functioning date & time object. This object looks and smells much like the Java and Javascript Date object on purpose. We also overloaded a number of operators to allow date addition and subtraction as well as comparisons.