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Date(3)		      User Contributed Perl Documentation	       Date(3)

NAME
       Class::Date - Class for easy date and time manipulation

SYNOPSIS
	 use Class::Date qw(:errors date localdate gmdate now -DateParse -EnvC);

	 # creating absolute date object (local time)
	 $date = new Class::Date [$year,$month,$day,$hour,$min,$sec];
	 $date = date [$year,$month,$day,$hour,$min,$sec];
	   # ^- "date" is an exportable function, the same as Class::Date->new
	 $date = date { year => $year, month => $month, day => $day,
	   hour => $hour, min => $min, sec => $sec };
	 $date = date "2001-11-12 07:13:12";
	 $date = localdate "2001-12-11";
	 $date = now;			   #  the same as date(time)
	 $date = date($other_date_object); # cloning
	 ...

	 # creating absolute date object (GMT)
	 $date = new Class::Date [$year,$month,$day,$hour,$min,$sec],'GMT';
	 $date = gmdate "2001-11-12 17:13";
	 ...

	 # creating absolute date object in any other timezone
	 $date = new Class::Date [$year,$month,$day,$hour,$min,$sec],'Iceland';
	 $date = date "2001-11-12 17:13", 'Iceland';
	 $date2 = $date->new([$y2, $m2, $d2, $h2, $m2, $s2]);
	   # ^- timezone is inherited from the $date object

	 # creating relative date object
	 # (normally you don't need to create this object explicitly)
	 $reldate = new Class::Date::Rel "3Y 1M 3D 6h 2m 4s";
	 $reldate = new Class::Date::Rel "6Y";
	 $reldate = new Class::Date::Rel $secs;	 # secs
	 $reldate = new Class::Date::Rel [$year,$month,$day,$hour,$min,$sec];
	 $reldate = new Class::Date::Rel { year => $year, month => $month, day => $day,
	   hour => $hour, min => $min, sec => $sec };
	 $reldate = new Class::Date::Rel "2001-11-12 07:13:12";
	 $reldate = new Class::Date::Rel "2001-12-11";

	 # getting values of an absolute date object
	 $date;		     # prints the date in default output format (see below)
	 $date->year;	     # year, e.g: 2001
	 $date->_year;	     # year - 1900, e.g. 101
	 $date->yr;	     # 2-digit year 0-99, e.g 1
	 $date->mon;	     # month 1..12
	 $date->month;	     # same as prev.
	 $date->_mon;	     # month 0..11
	 $date->_month;	     # same as prev.
	 $date->day;	     # day of month
	 $date->mday;	     # day of month
	 $date->day_of_month;# same as prev.
	 $date->hour;
	 $date->min;
	 $date->minute;	     # same as prev.
	 $date->sec;
	 $date->second;	     # same as prev.
	 $date->wday;	     # 1 = Sunday
	 $date->_wday;	     # 0 = Sunday
	 $date->day_of_week; # same as prev.
	 $date->yday;
	 $date->day_of_year; # same as prev.
	 $date->isdst;	     # DST?
	 $date->daylight_savings; # same as prev.
	 $date->epoch;	     # UNIX time_t
	 $date->monname;     # name of month, eg: March
	 $date->monthname;   # same as prev.
	 $date->wdayname;    # Thursday
	 $date->day_of_weekname # same as prev.
	 $date->hms	     # 01:23:45
	 $date->ymd	     # 2000/02/29
	 $date->mdy	     # 02/29/2000
	 $date->dmy	     # 29/02/2000
	 $date->meridiam     # 01:23 AM
	 $date->ampm	     # AM/PM
	 $date->string	     # 2000-02-29 12:21:11 (format can be changed, look below)
	 "$date"	     # same as prev.
	 $date->tzoffset     # timezone-offset
	 $date->strftime($format) # POSIX strftime (without the huge POSIX.pm)
	 $date->tz	     # returns the base timezone as you specify, eg: CET
	 $date->tzdst	     # returns the real timezone with dst information, eg: CEST

	 ($year,$month,$day,$hour,$min,$sec)=$date->array;
	 ($year,$month,$day,$hour,$min,$sec)=@{ $date->aref };
	 # !! $year: 1900-, $month: 1-12

	 ($sec,$min,$hour,$day,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)=$date->struct;
	 ($sec,$min,$hour,$day,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)=@{ $date->sref };
	 # !! $year: 0-, $month: 0-11

	 $hash=$date->href; # $href can be reused as a constructor
	 print $hash->{year}."-".$hash->{month}. ... $hash->{sec} ... ;

	 %hash=$date->hash;
	 # !! $hash{year}: 1900-, $hash{month}: 1-12

	 $date->month_begin  # First day of the month (date object)
	 $date->month_end    # Last day of the month
	 $date->days_in_month # 28..31

	 # constructing new date based on an existing one:
	 $new_date = $date->clone;
	 $new_date = $date->clone( year => 1977, sec => 14 );
	 # valid keys: year, _year, month, mon, _month, _mon, day, mday, day_of_month,
	 #	       hour, min, minute, sec, second, tz
	 # constructing a new date, which is the same as the original, but in
	 # another timezone:
	 $new_date = $date->to_tz('Iceland');

	 # changing date format
	 {
	   local $Class::Date::DATE_FORMAT="%Y%m%d%H%M%S";
	   print $date	     # result: 20011222000000
	   $Class::Date::DATE_FORMAT=undef;
	   print $date	     # result: Thu Oct 13 04:54:34 1994
	   $Class::Date::DATE_FORMAT="%Y/%m/%d"
	   print $date	     # result: 1994/10/13
	 }

	 # error handling
	 $a = date($date_string);
	 if ($a) { # valid date
	   ...
	 } else { # invalid date
	   if ($a->error == E_INVALID) { ... }
	   print $a->errstr;
	 }

	 # adjusting DST in calculations  (see the doc)
	 $Class::Date::DST_ADJUST = 1; # this is the default
	 $Class::Date::DST_ADJUST = 0;

	 # "month-border adjust" flag
	 $Class::Date::MONTH_BORDER_ADJUST = 0; # this is the default
	 print date("2001-01-31")+'1M'; # will print 2001-03-03
	 $Class::Date::MONTH_BORDER_ADJUST = 1;
	 print date("2001-01-31")+'1M'; # will print 2001-02-28

	 # date range check
	 $Class::Date::RANGE_CHECK = 0; # this is the default
	 print date("2001-02-31"); # will print 2001-03-03
	 $Class::Date::RANGE_CHECK = 1;
	 print date("2001-02-31"); # will print nothing

	 # getting values of a relative date object
	 $reldate;		# reldate in seconds (assumed 1 month = 2_629_744 secs)
	 $reldate->year;
	 $reldate->mon;
	 $reldate->month;	# same as prev.
	 $reldate->day;
	 $reldate->hour;
	 $reldate->min;
	 $reldate->minute;	# same as prev.
	 $reldate->sec;		# same as $reldate
	 $reldate->second;	# same as prev.
	 $reldate->sec_part;	# "second" part of the relative date
	 $reldate->mon_part;	# "month"  part of the relative date

	 # arithmetic with dates:
	 print date([2001,12,11,4,5,6])->truncate;
				      # will print "2001-12-11"
	 $new_date = $date+$reldate;
	 $date2	   = $date+'3Y 2D';   # 3 Years and 2 days
	 $date3	   = $date+[1,2,3];   # $date plus 1 year, 2 months, 3 days
	 $date4	   = $date+'3-1-5'    # $date plus 3 years, 1 months, 5 days

	 $new_date = $date-$reldate;
	 $date2	   = $date-'3Y';      # 3 Yearss
	 $date3	   = $date-[1,2,3];   # $date minus 1 year, 2 months, 3 days
	 $date4	   = $date-'3-1-5'    # $date minus 3 years, 1 month, 5 days

	 $new_reldate = $date1-$date2;
	 $reldate2 = Class::Date->new('2000-11-12')-'2000-11-10';
	 $reldate3    = $date3-'1977-11-10';

	 $days_between = (Class::Date->new('2001-11-12')-'2001-07-04')->day;

	 # comparison between absolute dates
	 print $date1 > $date2 ? "I am older" : "I am younger";

	 # comparison between relative dates
	 print $reldate1 > $reldate2 ? "I am faster" : "I am slower";

	 # Adding / Subtracting months and years are sometimes tricky:
	 print date("2001-01-29") + '1M' - '1M'; # gives "2001-02-01"
	 print date("2000-02-29") + '1Y' - '1Y'; # gives "2000-03-01"

	 # Named interface ($date2 does not necessary to be a Class::Date object)
	 $date1->string;	       # same as $date1 in scalar context
	 $date1->subtract($date2);     # same as $date1 - $date2
	 $date1->add($date2);	       # same as $date1 + $date2
	 $date1->compare($date2);      # same as $date1 <=> $date2

	 $reldate1->sec;	       # same as $reldate1 in numeric or scalar context
	 $reldate1->compare($reldate2);# same as $reldate1 <=> $reldate2
	 $reldate1->add($reldate2);    # same as $reldate1 + $reldate2
	 $reldate1->neg		       # used for subtraction

	 # Disabling Class::Date warnings at load time
	 BEGIN { $Class::Date::WARNINGS=0; }
	 use Class::Date;

DESCRIPTION
       This module is intended to provide a general-purpose date and datetime
       type for perl. You have a Class::Date class for absolute date and
       datetime, and have a Class::Date::Rel class for relative dates.

       You can use "+", "-", "<" and ">" operators as with native perl data
       types.

USAGE
       If you want to use a date object, you need to do the following:

	 - create a new object
	 - do some operations (+, -, comparison)
	 - get result back

   Creating a new date object
       You can create a date object by the "date", "localdate" or "gmdate"
       function, or by calling the Class::Date constructor.

       "date" and "Class::Date->new" are equivalent, both has two arguments:
       The date and the timezone.

	 $date1= date [2000,11,12];
	 $date2= Class::Date->new([2000,06,11,13,11,22],'GMT');
	 $date2= $date1->new([2000,06,11,13,11,22]);

       If the timezone information is omitted, then it first check if "new" is
       called as an object method or a class method. If it is an object
       method, then it inherits the timezone from the base object, otherwise
       the default timezone is used ($Class::Date::DEFAULT_TIMEZONE), which is
       usually set to the local timezone (which is stored in
       $Class::Date::LOCAL_TIMEZONE). These two variables are set only once to
       the value, which is returned by the Class::Date::local_timezone()
       function. You can change these values whenever you want.

       "localdate $x" is equivalent to "date $x,
       $Class::Date::LOCAL_TIMEZONE", "gmdate $x" is equivalent to "date $x,
       $Class::Date::GMT_TIMEZONE".

       $Class::Date::GMT_TIMEZONE is set to 'GMT' by default.

	 $date1= localdate [2000,11,12];
	 $date2= gmdate [2000,4,2,3,33,33];

	 $date = localdate(time);

       The format of the accepted input date can be:

       [$year,$month,$day,$hour,$min,$sec]
	   An array reference with 6 elements. The missing elements have
	   default values (year: 2000, month, day: 1, hour, min, sec: 0)

       { year => $year, month => $month, day => $day, hour => $hour, min =>
       $min, sec => $sec }
	   A hash reference with the same 6 elements as above.

       "YYYYMMDDhhmmss"
	   A mysql-style timestamp value, which consist of at least 14 digit.

       "973897262"
	   A valid 32-bit integer: This is parsed as a unix time.

       "YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss"
	   A standard ISO(-like) date format. Additional ".fraction" part is
	   ignored, ":ss" can be omitted.

       additional input formats
	   You can specify "-DateParse" as  an import parameter, e.g:

	     use Class::Date qw(date -DateParse);

	   With this, the module will try to load Date::Parse module, and if
	   it find it then all these formats can be used as an input. Please
	   refer to the Date::Parse documentation.

   Operations
       addition
	   You can add the following to a Class::Date object:

	     - a valid Class::Date::Rel object
	     - anything, that can be used for creating a new Class::Date::Rel object

	   It means that you don't need to create a new Class::Date::Rel
	   object every time when you add something to the Class::Date object,
	   it creates them automatically:

	     $date= Class::Date->new('2001-12-11')+Class::Date::Rel->new('3Y');

	   is the same as:

	     $date= date('2001-12-11')+'3Y';

	   You can provide a Class::Date::Rel object in the following form:

	   array ref
	       The same format as seen in Class::Date format, except the
	       default values are different: all zero.

	   hash ref
	       The same format as seen in Class::Date format, except the
	       default values are different: all zero.

	   "973897262"
	       A valid 32-bit integer is parsed as seconds.

	   "YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss"
	       A standard ISO date format, but this is parsed as relative date
	       date and time, so month, day and year can be zero (and defaults
	       to zero).

	   "12Y 6M 6D 20h 12m 5s"
	       This special string can be used if you don't want to use the
	       ISO format. This string consists of whitespace separated tags,
	       each tag consists of a number and a unit. The units can be:

		 Y: year
		 M: month
		 D: day
		 h: hour
		 m: min
		 s: sec

	       The number and unit must be written with no space between them.

       substraction
	   The same rules are true for substraction, except you can substract
	   two Class::Date object from each other, and you will get a
	   Class::Date::Rel object:

	     $reldate=$date1-$date2;
	     $reldate=date('2001-11-12 12:11:07')-date('2001-10-07 10:3:21');

	   In this case, the "month" field of the $reldate object will be 0,
	   and the other fields will contain the difference between two dates;

       comparison
	   You can compare two Class::Date objects, or one Class::Date object
	   and another data, which can be used for creating a new Class::Data
	   object.

	   It means that you don't need to bless both objects, one of them can
	   be a simple string, array ref, hash ref, etc (see how to create a
	   date object).

	     if ( date('2001-11-12') > date('2000-11-11') ) { ... }

	   or

	     if ( date('2001-11-12') > '2000-11-11' ) { ... }

       truncate
	   You can chop the time value from this object (set hour, min and sec
	   to 0) with the "truncate" or "trunc" method. It does not modify the
	   specified object, it returns with a new one.

       clone
	   You can create new date object based on an existing one, by using
	   the "clone" method. Note, this DOES NOT modify the base object.

	     $new_date = $date->clone( year => 2001, hour => 14 );

	   The valid keys are: year, _year, month, mon, _month, _mon, day,
	   mday, day_of_month, hour, min, minute, sec, second, tz.

	   There is a "set" method, which does the same as the "clone", it
	   exists only for compatibility.

       to_tz
	   You can use "to_tz" to create a new object, which means the same
	   time as the base object, but in the different timezone.

	   Note that $date->clone( tz => 'Iceland') and
	   $date->to_tz('Iceland') is not the same! Cloning a new object with
	   setting timezone will preserve the time information (hour, minute,
	   second, etc.), but transfer the time into other timezone, while
	   to_tz usually change these values based on the difference between
	   the source and the destination timezone.

       Operations with Class::Date::Rel
	   The Class::Date::Rel object consists of a month part and a day
	   part. Most people only use the "day" part of it. If you use both
	   part, then you can get these parts with the "sec_part" and
	   "mon_part" method. If you use "sec", "month", etc. methods or if
	   you use this object in a mathematical conent, then this object is
	   converted to one number, which is interpreted as second.  The
	   conversion is based on a 30.436 days month. Don't use it too often,
	   because it is confusing...

	   If you use Class::Date::Rel in an expression with other Class::Date
	   or Class::Date::Rel objects, then it does what is expected:

	     date('2001-11-12')+'1M' will be '2001-12-12'

	   and

	     date('1996-02-11')+'2M' will be '1996-04-11'

   Accessing data from a Class::Date and Class::Date::Rel object
       You can use the methods methods described at the top of the document if
       you want to access parts of the data which is stored in a Class::Date
       and Class::Date::Rel object.

   Error handling
       If a date object became invalid, then the object will be reblessed to
       Class::Date::Invalid. This object is false in boolean environment, so
       you can test the date validity like this:

	 $a = date($input_date);
	 if ($a) { # valid date
	     ...
	 } else { # invalid date
	     if ($a->error == E_INVALID) { ... }
	     print $a->errstr;
	 }

       Note even the date is invalid, the expression "defined $a" always
       returns true, so the following is wrong:

	 $a = date($input_date);
	 if (defined $a) ... # WRONG!!!!

       You can test the error by getting the $date->error value. You might
       import the ":errors" tag:

	 use Class::Date qw(:errors);

       Possible error values are:

       E_OK
	   No errors.

       E_INVALID
	   Invalid date. It is set when some of the parts of the date are
	   invalid, and Time::Local functions cannot convert them to a valid
	   date.

       E_RANGE
	   This error is set, when parts of the date are valid, but the whole
	   date is not valid, e.g. 2001-02-31. When the
	   $Class::Date::RANGE_CHECK is not set, then these date values are
	   automatically converted to a valid date: 2001-03-03, but the
	   $date->error value are set to E_RANGE. If $Class::Date::RANGE_CHECK
	   is set, then a date "2001-02-31" became invalid date.

       E_UNPARSABLE
	   This error is set, when the constructor cannot be created from a
	   scalar, e.g:

	     $a = date("4kd sdlsdf lwekrmk");

       E_UNDEFINED
	   This error is set, when you want to create a date object from an
	   undefined value:

	     $a = new Class::Date (undef);

	   Note, that localdate(undef) will create a valid object, because it
	   calls $Class::Date(time).

       You can get the error in string form by calling the "errstr" method.

DST_ADJUST
       $DST_ADJUST is an importable variable, and is a very important
       configuration option.

       If it is set to true (default), then it adjusts the date and time when
       the operation switches the border of DST. You will see the difference
       if you run this code:

	 $Class::Date::DST_ADJUST=0;
	 for (my $date=localdate("2000-06-11");$date<"2001-4-5";$date+='1D') {
	   print $date."\n";
	 }

	 $Class::Date::DST_ADJUST=1;
	 for (my $date=localdate("2000-06-11");$date<"2001-4-5";$date+='1D') {
	   print $date."\n";
	 }

MONTHS AND YEARS
       If you add or subtract "months" and "years" to a date, you may get
       wrong dates, e.g when you add one month to 2001-01-31, you expect to
       get 2001-02-31, but this date is invalid and converted to 2001-03-03.
       Thats' why

	 date("2001-01-31") + '1M' - '1M' != "2001-01-31"

       This problem can occur only with months and years, because others can
       easily be converted to seconds.

MONTH_BORDER_ADJUST
       $MONTH_BORDER_ADJUST variable is used to switch on or off the month-
       adjust feature. This is used only when someone adds months or years to
       a date and then the resulted date became invalid. An example: adding
       one month to "2001-01-31" will result "2001-02-31", and this is an
       invalid date.

       When $MONTH_BORDER_ADJUST is false, this result simply normalized, and
       becomes "2001-03-03". This is the default behaviour.

       When $MONTH_BORDER_ADJUST is true, this result becomes "2001-02-28". So
       when the date overflows, then it returns the last day insted.

       Both settings keeps the time information.

WORKING WITHOUT A C COMPILER
       Class::Date can be used without a C compiler since 1.0.8. If you want
       to do this, you only need to copy the "Date.pm" whereever your perl
       compiler searches for it. You must make a "Class" directory for it
       before.

       In Debian GNU/Linux system (woody) , a good choice can be the
       following:

	 mkdir /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/Class
	 cp Date.pm /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/Class

       And the module will work.

       You can use the $WARNINGS switch to switch off the complains about the
       missing XS part from your perl program:

	   BEGIN { $Class::Date::WARNINGS=0; }
	   use Class::Date;
	   ...

TIMEZONE SUPPORT
       Since 1.0.11, Class::Date handle timezones natively on most platforms
       (see the BUGS AND LIMITATIONS section for more info).

       When the module is loaded, then it determines the local base timezone
       by calling the Class::Date::local_timezone() function, and stores these
       values into two variables, these are: $Class::Date::LOCAL_TIMEZONE and
       $Class::Date::DEFAULT_TIMEZONE. The first value is used, when you call
       the "localdate" function, the second value is used, when you call the
       "date" function and you don't specify the timezone. There is a
       $Class::Date::GMT_TIMEZONE function also, which is used by the "gmdate"
       function, this is set to 'GMT'.

       You can query the timezone of a date object by calling the $date->tz
       method. Note this value returns the timezone as you specify, so if you
       create the object with an unknown timezone, you will get this back. If
       you want to query the effective timezone, you can call the $date->tzdst
       method.	This method returns only valid timezones, but it is not
       necessarily the timezone, which can be used to create a new object. For
       example $date->tzdst can return 'CEST', which is not a valid base
       timezone, because it contains daylight savings information also. On
       Linux systems, you can see the possible base timezones in the
       /usr/share/zoneinfo directory.

       In Class::Date 1.1.6, a new environment variable is introduced:
       $Class::Date::NOTZ_TIMEZONE. This variable stores the local timezone,
       which is used, when the TZ environment variable is not set. It is
       introduced, because there are some systems, which cannot handle the
       queried timezone well. For example the local timezone is CST, it is
       returned by the tzname() perl function, but when I set the TZ
       environment variable to CST, it works like it would be GMT.  The
       workaround is NOTZ_TIMEZONE: if a date object has a timezone, which is
       the same as NOTZ_TIMEZONE, then the TZ variable will be removed before
       each calculation. In normal case, it would be the same as setting TZ to
       $NOTZ_TIMEZONE, but some systems don't like it, so I decided to
       introduce this variable. The $Class::Date::NOTZ_TIMEZONE variable is
       set in the initialization of the module by removing the TZ variable
       from the environment and querying the tzname variable.

INTERNALS
       This module uses operator overloading very heavily. I've found it quite
       stable, but I am afraid of it a bit.

       A Class::Date object is an array reference.

       A Class::Date::Rel object is an array reference, which contains month
       and second information. I need to store it as an array ref, because
       array and month values cannot be converted into seconds, because of our
       super calendar.

       You can add code references to the @Class::Date::NEW_FROM_SCALAR and
       @Class::Date::Rel::NEW_FROM_SCALAR. These arrays are iterated through
       when a scalar-format date must be parsed. These arrays only have one or
       two values at initialization. The parameters which the code references
       got are the same as the "new" method of each class. In this way, you
       can personalize the date parses as you want.

       As of 0.90, the Class::Date has been rewritten. A lot of code and
       design decision has been borrowed from Matt Sergeant's Time::Object,
       and there will be some incompatibility with the previous public version
       (0.5). I tried to keep compatibility methods in Class::Date. If you
       have problems regarding this, please drop me an email with the
       description of the problem, and I will set the compatibility back.

       Invalid dates are Class::Date::Invalid objects. Every method call on
       this object and every operation with this object returns undef or 0.

DEVELOPMENT FOCUS
       This module tries to be as full-featured as can be. It currently lacks
       business-day calculation, which is planned to be implemented in the
       1.0.x series.

       I try to keep this module not to depend on other modules and I want
       this module usable without a C compiler.

       Currently the module uses the POSIX localtime function very
       extensively.  This makes the date calculation a bit slow, but provides
       a rich interface, which is not provided by any other module. When I
       tried to redesign the internals to not depend on localtime, I failed,
       because there are no other way to determine the daylight savings
       information.

SPEED ISSUES
       There are two kind of adjustment in this module, DST_ADJUST and
       MONTH_BORDER_ADJUST. Both of them makes the "+" and "-" operations
       slower. If you don't need them, switch them off to achieve faster
       calculations.

       In general, if you really need fast date and datetime calculation,
       don't use this module. As you see in the previous section, the focus of
       development is not the speed in 1.0.  For fast date and datetime
       calculations, use Date::Calc module instead.

THREAD SAFETY and MOD_PERL
       This module is NOT thread-safe, since it uses C library functions,
       which are not thread-safe. Using this module in a multi-threaded
       environment can cause timezones to be messed up. I did not put any
       warning about it, you have to make sure that you understand this!

       Under some circumstances in a mod_perl environment, you require the
       Env::C module to set the TZ variable properly before calling the time
       functions. I added the -EnvC import option to automatically load this
       module if it is not loaded already. Please read the mod_perl
       documentation about the environment variables and mod_perl to get the
       idea why it is required sometimes:

	 http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/troubleshooting/troubleshooting.html#C_Libraries_Don_t_See_C__ENV__Entries_Set_by_Perl_Code

       You are sure have this problem if the $Class::Date::NOTZ_TIMEZONE
       variable is set to 'UTC', althought you are sure that your timezone is
       not that. Try -EnvC in this case, but make sure that you are not using
       it in a multi-threaded environment!

OTHER BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
       ·   I cannot manage to get the timezone code working properly on
	   ActivePerl 5.8.0 on win XP and earlier versions possibly have this
	   problem also. If you have a system like this, then you will have
	   only two timezones, the local and the GMT. Every timezone, which is
	   not equal to $Class::Date::GMT_TIMEZONE is assumed to be local.
	   This seems to be caused by the win32 implementation of timezone
	   routines. I don't really know how to make this thing working, so I
	   gave up this issue. If anyone know a working solution, then I will
	   integrate it into Class::Date, but until then, the timezone support
	   will not be available for these platforms.

       ·   Perl 5.8.0 and earlier versions has a bug in the strftime code on
	   some operating systems (for example Linux), which is timezone
	   related. I recommend using the strftime, which is provided with
	   Class::Date, so don't try to use the module without the compiled
	   part. The module will not work with a buggy strftime - the test is
	   hardcoded into the beginning of the code. If you anyway want to use
	   the module, remove the hardcoded "die" from the module, but do it
	   for your own risk.

       ·   This module uses the POSIX functions for date and time
	   calculations, so it is not working for dates beyond 2038 and before
	   1902.

	   I don't know what systems support dates in 1902-1970 range, it may
	   not work on your system. I know it works on the Linux glibc system
	   with perl 5.6.1 and 5.7.2. I know it does not work with perl
	   5.005_03 (it may be the bug of the Time::Local module). Please
	   report if you know any system where it does _not_ work with perl
	   5.6.1 or later.

	   I hope that someone will fix this with new time_t in libc. If you
	   really need dates over 2038 and before 1902, you need to completely
	   rewrite this module or use Date::Calc or other date modules.

       ·   This module uses Time::Local, and when it croaks, Class::Date
	   returns "Invalid date or time" error message. Time::Local is
	   different in the 5.005 and 5.6.x (and even 5.7.x) version of perl,
	   so the following code will return different results:

	     $a = date("2006-11-11")->clone(year => -1);

	   In perl 5.6.1, it returns an invalid date with error message
	   "Invali date or time", in perl 5.005 it returns an invalid date
	   with range check error. Both are false if you use them in boolean
	   context though, only the error message is different, but don't rely
	   on the error message in this case. It however works in the same way
	   if you change other fields than "year" to an invalid field.

SUPPORT
       Class::Date is free software. IT COMES WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

       If you have questions, you can send questions directly to me:

	 dlux@dlux.hu

WIN32 notes
       You can get a binary win32 version of Class::Date from Chris Winters'
       .ppd repository with the following commands:

       For people using PPM2:

	 c:\> ppm
	 PPM> set repository oi http://openinteract.sourceforge.net/ppmpackages/
	 PPM> set save
	 PPM> install Class-Date

       For people using PPM3:

	 c:\> ppm
	 PPM> repository http://openinteract.sourceforge.net/ppmpackages/
	 PPM> install Class-Date

       The first steps in PPM only needs to be done at the first time. Next
       time you just run the 'install'.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2001 SzabA~X, BalA~Xzs (dLux)

       All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can
       redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       Portions Copyright (c) Matt Sergeant

AUTHOR
	 dLux (SzabA~X, BalA~Xzs) <dlux@dlux.hu>

CREDITS
	 - Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org>
	   (Lots of code are borrowed from the Time::Object module)
	 - Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@cpan.org> (bugfixes)
	 - Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org> (suggestions, bugfix)
	 - Chris Winters <chris@cwinters.com> (win32 .ppd version)
	 - Benoit Beausejour <bbeausej@pobox.com>
	   (Parts of the timezone code is borrowed from his Date::Handler module)

SEE ALSO
       perl(1).	 Date::Calc(3pm).  Time::Object(3pm).  Date::Handler(3pm).

perl v5.14.0			  2011-06-17			       Date(3)
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