Date::Manip::Lang(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Date::Manip::Lang(3)NAMEDate::Manip::Lang - date manipulation routines (language
initialization)
DESCRIPTION
This module is a series of routines, one per language, used to
initialize the support for different languages in Date::Manip
ADDING A LANGUAGE
Adding a language is easily done. If you want to add a language, refer
to the list of words and phrases given below. Translate them into the
desired language and email them to me.
Note that Date::Manip does support international character sets, so if
there are non-ASCII characters in the words, it's not a problem. Be
sure to include an ASCII representation as well that can be used in
cases where non-ASCII characters might cause problems. In many cases,
alternate spellings are allowed, and there may be multiple words or
phrases which fit, so please include all of them (with ASCII
representations for any that include non-ASCII characters).
Please translate ALL of the following. In some cases, a phrase is
given in parentheses. It is not necessary to translate the phrase.
They're there to show the word in the correct context.
month names (January February ...)
abbreviations (Jan Feb ...)
day name (Monday Tuesday ... Sunday)
abbreviation (Mon Tue ... Sun)
short abbrev. (M T ... S)
number suffix (1st 2nd ... 31st)
spelled out (first second ... thirty-first
now
today
tomorrow
yesterday
last (last day of the month)
each (each Tuesday of the month)
of (first day of the week)
at (at 3:00)
on (on Tuesday)
next (next Tuesday)
last (last Tuesday)
exactly (in exactly 3 hours)
approximately (in approximately 3 hours)
business (in 4 business days)
Some times of the day are named. At the very least, there is
probably noon and midnight. Provide all named times, and the
time of day.
noon 12:00:00
midnight 00:00:00
The delta field names can be written or abbreviated in many differet
ways. Provide all names and abbreviations for the seven fields. For
example:
years/year/yrs/yr/y
months/month/mon
weeks/week/wk/wks/w
days/day/d
hours/hour/hr/hrs
minutes/minute/min/mn
seconds/second/sec/s
What words/phrases can be used to say that a time is in the future? E.g.
IN 3 hours
3 hours LATER
3 hours IN THE FUTURE
In the past?
3 hours AGO
3 hours PAST
Does the language have an equivalent of the English AM/PM? If so,
what are all possible values of each?
Other than a comma or period, are there any common integer/decimal
separators? For example: 1.25 can be expressed as 1.25 or 1,25
commonly. Are there any other ways?
When expressing time the hours/minutes and minutes/seconds are
typically separated by colons. Are there any other separators?
If so, what combinations of the separators are used in real life?
For example: 05h30:00.
NOTE: there must be the same number of sephm and sepms values
and the first sephm corresponds to the first sepms, etc.
AUTHOR
Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org)
You can always get the newest beta version of Date::Manip (which may
fix problems in the current CPAN version... and may add others) from my
home page:
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~sbeck/
perl v5.10.1 2010-01-12 Date::Manip::Lang(3)
