NAME¶

Palm::DateTime - Deal with various Palm OS date/time formats

VERSION¶

This document describes version 1.400 of Palm::DateTime, released March 14, 2015 as part of Palm version 1.400.

DESCRIPTION¶

Palm::DateTime exports subroutines to convert between various Palm OS date/time formats. All subroutines are exported by default.

Data types:

 secs     - Seconds since the system epoch
 dlptime  - Palm OS DlpDateTimeType (raw)
 datetime - Palm OS DateTimeType (raw)
 palmtime - Decoded date/time (a hashref)
              KEY     VALUES
              second  0-59
              minute  0-59
              hour    0-23
              day     1-31
              month   1-12
              year    4 digits

SUBROUTINES¶

  $palmtime = datetime_to_palmtime($datetime)

  $palmtime = dlptime_to_palmtime($dlptime)

  $secs = dlptime_to_secs($dlptime)

  $string = palmtime_to_secs(\%palmtime)

  $dlptime = palmtime_to_dlptime(\%palmtime)

  $string = palmtime_to_iso8601(\%palmtime)

  $secs = palmtime_to_secs(\%palmtime)

  $dlptime = secs_to_dlptime($secs)

  $palmtime = secs_to_palmtime($secs)

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT¶

Palm::DateTime requires no configuration files or environment variables.

INCOMPATIBILITIES¶

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS¶

No bugs have been reported.

AUTHORS¶

Alessandro Zummo "<a.zummo AT towertech.it>"

Currently maintained by Christopher J. Madsen "<perl AT cjmweb.net>"

Please report any bugs or feature requests to "<bug-Palm AT rt.cpan.org>" or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Palm>.

You can follow or contribute to p5-Palm's development at <https://github.com/madsen/p5-Palm>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶

This software is copyright (c) 2003 by Andrew Arensburger & Alessandro Zummo.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY¶

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