Time::gmtime(3) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Time::gmtime(3)NAMETime::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in
gmtime() function
SYNOPSIS
use Time::gmtime;
$gm = gmtime();
printf "The day in Greenwich is %s\n",
(qw(Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun))[ gm->wday() ];
use Time::gmtime w(:FIELDS;
printf "The day in Greenwich is %s\n",
(qw(Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun))[ gm_wday() ];
$now = gmctime();
use Time::gmtime;
use File::stat;
$date_string = gmctime(stat($file)->mtime);
DESCRIPTION
This module's default exports override the core gmtime()
function, replacing it with a version that returns
"Time::tm" objects. This object has methods that return
the similarly named structure field name from the C's tm
structure from time.h; namely sec, min, hour, mday, mon,
year, wday, yday, and isdst.
You may also import all the structure fields directly into
your namespace as regular variables using the :FIELDS
import tag. (Note that this still overrides your core
functions.) Access these fields as variables named with a
preceding tm_ in front their method names. Thus,
$tm_obj->mday() corresponds to $tm_mday if you import the
fields.
The gmctime() function provides a way of getting at the
scalar sense of the original CORE::gmtime() function.
To access this functionality without the core overrides,
pass the use an empty import list, and then access
function functions with their full qualified names. On
the other hand, the built-ins are still available via the
CORE:: pseudo-package.
NOTE
While this class is currently implemented using the
Class::Struct module to build a struct-like class, you
shouldn't rely upon this.
AUTHOR
Tom Christiansen
16/Sep/1999 perl 5.005, patch 03 1
Time::gmtime(3) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Time::gmtime(3)16/Sep/1999 perl 5.005, patch 03 2
