NAME

DateTime::Format::RFC3501 - Parse and format RFC3501 datetime strings

VERSION

version 0.03

SYNOPSIS

    use DateTime::Format::RFC3501;
    
    my $f = DateTime::Format::RFC3501->new();
    my $dt = $f->parse_datetime( ' 1-Jul-2002 13:50:05 +0200' );
    
    # 1-Jul-2002 13:50:05 +0200
    print $f->format_datetime($dt);

DESCRIPTION

This module understands the RFC3501 date-time format, defined at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501.

It can be used to parse this format in order to create the appropriate objects.

METHODS

new()

Returns a new RFC3501 parser object.

parse_datetime($string)

Given a RFC3501 date-time string, this method will return a new DateTime object.

If given an improperly formatted string, this method will croak.

For a more flexible parser, see DateTime::Format::Strptime.

format_datetime($datetime)

Given a DateTime object, this methods returns a RFC3501 date-time string.

CREDITS

This module was heavily inspired by DateTime::Format::RFC3339.

SEE ALSO

• DateTime

• DateTime::Format::RFC3339

• DateTime::Format::Strptime

• http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501, "Internet Message Access Protocol - version 4rev1"

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at https://github.com/alexm/DateTime-Format-RFC3501/issues. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc DateTime::Format::RFC3501

AUTHOR

Alex Muntada <alexm@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011-2021 by Alex Muntada.

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

cpanm DateTime::Format::RFC3501

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install DateTime::Format::RFC3501