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 files in module that live in: lib/Date/Manip/Lang .
First, send me the name of the language (in ASCII character) as well as
any locale designations.
For example, to create a Spanish translation (which is not necessary
since it already exists), I need the following list::
spanish es es_es
The first word is the name of the language. Copy copy the english.pm
file to spanish.pm.
The language file you just created is a new module containing the data
for that language. It needs to be modified in the following ways:
· Change "english" to "spanish" everywhere it appears in the new
file. Also change "English" to "Spanish".
· Look for a line of the form:
@Encodings = qw();
and change it to include the encodings most often used by this
language. For example,
@Encodings = qw(utf-8 iso-8859-1 perl);
Always include 'utf-8' and 'perl' as the first and last elements in
the list.
· Change all of the data (after the __DATA__ line) as described
below.
The data section of the module (which is written in YAML) is fairly
straightforward to translate.
Where possible, please store all data in UTF-8 characters. If you have
to escape high-byte characters, or use some other character encoding,
please let me know. I'll do my best to deal with it, but it will delay
me incorporating the translation into the module.
Most of the sections below can contain any number of alternate words
which imply the same thing. Any time a list contains multiple words,
the first should be the 'preferred' or most common word.
If a word contains UTF-8 characters which have a simple ASCII
equivalent, you should include both forms. For example, the spanish
name for Saturday in ASCII would be written sabado, but in reality, the
first 'a' has an accent over it. This word should appear twice... first
in full UTF-8 encoding, and second as all ASCII. If the language
(Russian for example) has no ASCII equivalent, just include the UTF-8
representation.
ampm
The ampm section consists of two lists of words. The first section
are words which can be included after a time to designate a morning
time (i.e. AM). The second set are words which designate an
afternoon time (i.e. PM).
at The word 'at' as it appears in the phrase:
AT 3:00
day_abb, day_char, day_name
These are each a list of seven elements which refer to the days
Monday through Sunday.
day_char is typically a one or two character designation of the day
(M, T, W, ...).
day_abb is an abbreviation for the day (Mon, Tue, Wed, ...).
day_name is the full day name (Monday, Tuesday, ...).
each
This is a list of words that could be used to translate the
following phrases:
EACH Monday
EVERY Monday
EVERY month
fields
These are the names of the fields in a delta. There are 7 fields:
years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds.
The first field would be the ways that you might name the years
field:
YEARS YEAR YRS YR
last
This is a list of words that could be used to translate the
following phrase:
LAST day of the month
mode
This contains two lists of words which can be used to specify
whether a delta is exact, approximate, or business.
The first list contains words which would specify exact or
approximate deltas. In other words, a delta could be specified:
in EXACTLY 3 hours
in APPROXIMATELY 3 hours
The second list contains words which would specify business deltas.
In other words:
in 3 BUSINESS days
month_abb, month_name
These specify the abbreviation and name respectively of the 12
months.
nextprev
This contains two sets of words. The first specifies the next
element, and would be used to translate the following phrases:
NEXT week
NEXT Tuesday
The second set specifies the previous element, and would be used to
translate the following phrases:
LAST Tuesday
PREVIOUS week
nth This contains the numbers from 1-53. The first element should be
the equivalent of '1st', '2nd', Additional elements should be the
equivalent of the number spelled out (one, two, ...) and the
ordinal number spelled out (first, second, ...).
of This is a word which might be used to translate the following
phrases:
1st dat OF December
1st day IN December
offset_date
This actually contains a hash, rather than a list.
Most languages have special words which refer to a day relative to
today. The most common (in English) are:
TODAY
TOMORROW
YESTERDAY
The keys of the hash are the words, and the values of the hash are
a delta which can be used to get the date relative to today.
For example, tomorrow is the delta '+0:0:0:1:0:0:0'.
If the word contains UTF-8 characters, please include it twice,
once with the UTF-8 characters, and once as ASCII (if relevant).
offset_time
This is a hash similar to offset_date.
Most languages have words which might refer to times relative to
the current time. In English, the only common word is
NOW
but in other languages, there may be other common words.
on This is a word which might be used to translate the following
phrases:
ON July 5th
times
This is a hash similar to offset_date.
Most languages have special words which refer to specific times of
the day. In English, these include:
NOON
MIDNIGHT
when
This is two lists of words. The first list would be in a delta
referring to a time in the past. For example:
5 hours AGO
5 hours EARLIER
The second list of words would be in a delta referring to a time in
the future. For example:
IN 5 hours
5 hours LATER
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 2011-12-10 Date::Manip::Lang(3)
