Edit file File name : Language.pm Content : package Date::Language; use strict; use Time::Local; use Carp; use vars qw($VERSION @ISA); require Date::Format; $VERSION = "1.10"; @ISA = qw(Date::Format::Generic); sub new { my $self = shift; my $type = shift || $self; $type =~ s/^(\w+)$/Date::Language::$1/; croak "Bad language" unless $type =~ /^[\w:]+$/; eval "require $type" or croak $@; bless [], $type; } # Stop AUTOLOAD being called ;-) sub DESTROY {} sub AUTOLOAD { use vars qw($AUTOLOAD); if($AUTOLOAD =~ /::strptime\Z/o) { my $self = $_[0]; my $type = ref($self) || $self; require Date::Parse; no strict 'refs'; *{"${type}::strptime"} = Date::Parse::gen_parser( \%{"${type}::DoW"}, \%{"${type}::MoY"}, \@{"${type}::Dsuf"}, 1); goto &{"${type}::strptime"}; } croak "Undefined method &$AUTOLOAD called"; } sub str2time { my $me = shift; my @t = $me->strptime(@_); return undef unless @t; my($ss,$mm,$hh,$day,$month,$year,$zone) = @t; my @lt = localtime(time); $hh ||= 0; $mm ||= 0; $ss ||= 0; $month = $lt[4] unless(defined $month); $day = $lt[3] unless(defined $day); $year = ($month > $lt[4]) ? ($lt[5] - 1) : $lt[5] unless(defined $year); return defined $zone ? timegm($ss,$mm,$hh,$day,$month,$year) - $zone : timelocal($ss,$mm,$hh,$day,$month,$year); } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME Date::Language - Language specific date formating and parsing =head1 SYNOPSIS use Date::Language; my $lang = Date::Language->new('German'); $lang->time2str("%a %b %e %T %Y\n", time); =head1 DESCRIPTION L<Date::Language> provides objects to parse and format dates for specific languages. Available languages are Afar French Russian_cp1251 Amharic Gedeo Russian_koi8r Austrian German Sidama Brazilian Greek Somali Chinese Hungarian Spanish Chinese_GB Icelandic Swedish Czech Italian Tigrinya Danish Norwegian TigrinyaEritrean Dutch Oromo TigrinyaEthiopian English Romanian Turkish Finnish Russian Bulgarian Occitan =head1 METHODS =over =item time2str See L<Date::Format/time2str> =item strftime See L<Date::Format/strftime> =item ctime See L<Date::Format/ctime> =item asctime See L<Date::Format/asctime> =item str2time See L<Date::Parse/str2time> =item strptime See L<Date::Parse/strptime> =back Save