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Date::Manip::Examples(User Contributed Perl DocumentatDate::Manip::Examples(3)

NAME
       Date::Manip::Examples - examples of how to use Date::Manip

DESCRIPTION
       This document includes a number of examples on how to do common
       Date::Manip operations.

       I will be happy to add new examples over time, and welcome suggestions
       and examples to include.

       In most cases, an example will include two different ways of getting
       the answer.

       The first way will be using the new (as of 6.00) OO modules. The second
       will be using the old-style functional interface.

       It should be noted that any time you want to work with alternate time
       zones, the OO interface is STRONGLY recommended since the functional
       interface does not preserve time zone information with the date, and
       may therefore give incorrect results in some cases. However, working in
       the time zone of the system should give correct results.

       It should be noted that, in the examples below, it appears that the OO
       method takes a lot more lines of code than the functional interface.
       There are a number of ways to shorten the OO method, but for the
       examples, I wanted to include all the steps explicitly.

PARSING A DATE
       Dates can be parsed in practically any form in common usage:

       OO method
	      $date = new Date::Manip::Date;
	      $err = $date->parse("today");
	      $err = $date->parse("1st Thursday in June 1992");
	      $err = $date->parse("05/10/93");
	      $err = $date->parse("12:30 Dec 12th 1880");
	      $err = $date->parse("8:00pm December tenth");

       Functional
	      $date = ParseDate("today");
	      $date = ParseDate("1st Thursday in June 1992");
	      $date = ParseDate("05/10/93");
	      $date = ParseDate("12:30 Dec 12th 1880");
	      $date = ParseDate("8:00pm December tenth");

       The Date::Manip::Date manual has a list of all valid formats.

PARSING AN AMOUNT OF TIME
       Amounts of time (referred to as deltas) can also be parsed:

       OO method
	      $delta = new Date::Manip::Delta;
	      $err = $delta->parse("in 12 hours");
	      $err = $delta->parse("-0:1:30:0");
	      $err = $delta->parse("4 business days later");

       Functional
	      $delta = ParseDateDelta("in 12 hours");
	      $delta = ParseDateDelta("-0:1:30:0");
	      $delta = ParseDateDelta("4 business days later");

TO CALCULATE THE AMOUNT OF TIME BETWEEN TWO DATES
	  $datestr1 = "Jan 30 1999 13:00 EST";
	  $datestr2 = "2/Mar/1999 15:30:00 +0500";

       OO method
	      $date1 = new Date::Manip::Date;
	      $date2 = $date1->new_date();
	      $err = $date1->parse($datestr1);
	      $err = $date2->parse($datestr2);

	   To get an exact amount of time between the two dates (expressed
	   only in terms of weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds), use:

	      $delta = $date1->calc($date2);

	   To get an approximate amount of time (expressed in terms of years,
	   months, weeks, etc. in terms that a human would typically think
	   of), use:

	      $delta = $date1->calc($date2,"approx");

       Functional
	      $date1 = ParseDate($string1);
	      $date2 = ParseDate($string2);

	   To get an exact amount:

	      $delta = DateCalc($date1,$date2);

	   and the approximate amount:

	      $delta = DateCalc($date1,$date2,1);

       The Date::Manip::Calc manual has information about these, and other
       types of calculations.

TO ADD AN AMOUNT OF TIME TO A DATE
       To find a second date a given amount of time before or after a first
       date, use the following:

	  $datestr  = "Jan 30 1999 13:00 EST";
	  $deltastr = "12 hours ago";
	  $deltastr = "in 3 business days";

       OO method
	      $date = new Date::Manip::Date;
	      $delta = $date->new_delta();
	      $date->parse($datestr);
	      $delta->parse($deltastr);

	      $d = $date->calc($delta);

       Functional
	      $date = DateCalc($datestr,$deltastr);

       If the delta is a business delta, it will do a business mode
       calculation.

       The Date::Manip::Calc manual has information about these, and other
       types of calculations.

COMPARE TWO DATES
       To take two different dates and see which is earlier, do the following:

	  $datestr1 = "Jan 30 1999 13:00 EST";
	  $datestr2 = "2/Mar/1999 15:30:00 +0500";

       OO method
	      $date1 = new Date::Manip::Date;
	      $date2 = $date1->new_date;
	      $date1->parse($datestr1);
	      $date2->parse($datestr2);

	      $date1->cmp($date2);
		 => -1, 0, 1

       Functional
	      $date1 = ParseDate($datestr1);
	      $date2 = ParseDate($datestr2);

	      Date_Cmp($date1,$date2);
		 => -1, 0, 1

TO EXTRACT INFORMATION ABOUT A DATE OR DELTA
       If you have a date or a delta, you can extract information about them
       as follows:

	  $datestr  = "1:24:08 PM EST Feb 3, 1996";
	  $deltastr = "12 hours ago";

       OO method
	      $date = new Date::Manip::Date;
	      $delta = $date->new_delta();
	      $date->parse($datestr);
	      $delta->parse($deltastr);

	      $date->printf("It is now %T on %b %e, %Y.");
		=>  "It is now 13:24:08 on Feb	3, 1996."

	      $delta->printf("In %hv hours, %mv minutes, %sv seconds");
		=> "In -12 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds";

       Functional
	      UnixDate($datestr,"It is now %T on %b %e, %Y.");
		=>  "It is now 13:24:08 on Feb	3, 1996."

	      Delta_Format($deltastr,"In %hv hours, %mv minutes, %sv seconds");
		=> "In -12 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds";

       The Date::Manip::Date manual contains all of the format codes that can
       be used to extract information from a date. The Date::Manip::Delta
       manual contains the codes for a delta.

WORKING WITH EPOCH
       Date::Manip can easily be used to work with the number of seconds since
       the epoch (Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC).

       If you have a date, and you want to find out how many seconds it is
       after the epoch, you can do it in the following ways:

	  $datestr  = "1999-04-30-15:30:00 EDT";
	  $secs	 = 1234567;

       OO method
	   To find out how many seconds have elapsed on a certain date, you
	   can do the following:

	      $date	= new Date::Manip::Date;
	      $err	= $date->parse($datestr);

	      $date->printf('%s');
		 => number of seconds

	   To find out the date that is a certain number of seconds since the
	   epoch, you can use the following:

	      $date  = new Date::Manip::Date;
	      $err   = $date->parse("epoch $secs");

	      $date now contains the date wanted (in the local time zone)

       Functional
	   To find out how many seconds have elapsed:

	      UnixDate($datestr,'%s');
		=> number of seconds

	   To find the date that is a number of seconds since the epoch:

	      ParseDateString("epoch $secs");

       Note that Date::Manip will work with both positive seconds (for dates
       that have come since the epoch) and negative seconds (for dates that
       occurred before the epoch).

RECURRING EVENTS
       To find a list of dates where a recurring event happens (even very
       complex recurrences), do the following:

       OO method
	     # To find the 2nd Tuesday of every month from Jan 1 1999 to Apr 30 1999

	     $recur = new Date::Manip::Recur;
	     $start = $recur->new_date();
	     $end   = $recur->new_date();
	     $start->parse("Jan 1 1999");
	     $end->parse("Apr 30 1999");

	     $recur->parse("0:1*2:2:0:0:0",$start,$end);
	     @date = $recur->dates();

	     # To find the Monday after Easter in 1997-1999

	     $recur = new Date::Manip::Recur;
	     $recur->parse("*1997-1999:0:0:0:0:0:0*EASTER,ND1");
	     @date = $recur->dates();

       Functional
	     # To find the 2nd Tuesday of every month from Jan 1 1999 to Apr 30 1999
	     @date = ParseRecur("0:1*2:2:0:0:0","","Jan 1 1999","Apr 30 1999");

	     # To find the Monday after Easter in 1997-1999.
	     @date = ParseRecur("*1997-1999:0:0:0:0:0:0*EASTER,ND1");

       The Date::Manip::Recur manual contains information about recurring
       events.

WORKING WITH DATES IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE
       If you want to work with dates in a language other than English (but
       you are only working with a single language), do the following:

       OO method
	      $date = new Date::Manip::Date;
	      $date->config("Language","French","DateFormat","non-US");
	      $date->parse("1er decembre 1990");

       Functional
	      Date_Init("Language=French","DateFormat=non-US");
	      $date = ParseDate("1er decembre 1990");

       The Date::Manip::Config manual has a list of all supported languages
       (in the section on the Language config variable). The meaning of the
       DateFormat config variable is also included.

WORKING WITH TWO DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
       If you want to work with dates in two (or more) languages, it is
       STRONGLY recommended that you use the OO interface. The functional
       interface will be much slower since it has to re-initialize a lot of
       language-specific stuff every time you switch back and forth between
       languages.

       OO method
	      $date_eng = new Date::Manip::Date;
	      $date_eng->config("Language","English","DateFormat","US");

	      $date_fre = new Date::Manip::Date;
	      $date_fre->config("Language","French","DateFormat","non-US");

	   Use the $date_eng object to do English operations, the $date_fre
	   object to do French operations.

       Functional
	   If you are working with both French and English dates, you can call
	   the following to switch between them:

	      Date_Init("Language=French","DateFormat=non-US");
	      Date_Init("Language=English","DateFormat=US");

	   This is NOT recommended. Use the OO method instead.

BUGS AND QUESTIONS
       Please refer to the Date::Manip::Problems documentation for information
       on submitting bug reports or questions to the author.

SEE ALSO
       Date::Manip	  - main module documentation

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

AUTHOR
       Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org)

perl v5.10.1			  2010-01-12	      Date::Manip::Examples(3)
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