NAME

DateTime::Format::W3CDTF - Parse and format W3CDTF datetime strings

VERSION

This document describes DateTime::Format::W3CDTF version 0.08

SYNOPSIS

  use DateTime::Format::W3CDTF;
  my $w3c = DateTime::Format::W3CDTF->new(strict => 1);
  my $dt = $w3c->parse_datetime( '2003-02-15T13:50:05-05:00' );
  # 2003-02-15T13:50:05-05:00
  $w3c->format_datetime($dt);

DESCRIPTION

This module understands the W3CDTF date/time format, an ISO 8601 profile, defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime. This format as the native date format of RSS 1.0.

It can be used to parse these formats in order to create the appropriate objects.

METHODS

This API is currently experimental and may change in the future.

new()
Returns a new W3CDTF parser object. Accepts a single "strict" option:
```
  DateTime::Format::W3CDTF->new(strict => 1);
    
```
If true, parse_datetime() and format_datetime() will only accept and return strings in W3CDTF format, respectively. In particular, the W3CDTF format requires all time components to have timezones.

If false, timezones are optional.
parse_datetime($string)
Given a W3CDTF datetime string, this method will return a new "DateTime" object.

If given an improperly formatted string, this method may die.
format_datetime($datetime)
Given a "DateTime" object, this methods returns a W3CDTF datetime string.

NOTE: As of version 0.4, format_datetime no longer attempts to truncate datetimes without a time component. This is due to the fact that "DateTime" doesn't distinguish between a date with no time component, and midnight.
format_date($datetime)
Given a "DateTime" object, return a W3CDTF datetime string without the time component.

SUPPORT

Support for this module is provided via the datetime@perl.org email list. See http://datetime.perl.org/?MailingList for details.

Please submit bugs to the CPAN RT system at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=datetime-format-w3cdtf or via email at bug-datetime-format-w3cdtf@rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

CREDITS

This module is maintained by Gregory Todd Williams <gwilliams@cpan.org>. It was originally created by Kellan Elliott-McCrea <kellan@protest.net>.

This module was inspired by DateTime::Format::ICal

COPYRIGHT

Portions of the code in this distribution are derived from other works. Please see the CREDITS file for more details.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.