NAME DateTime::Format::CLDR - Parse and format CLDR time patterns SYNOPSIS use DateTime::Format::CLDR; # 1. Basic example my $cldr1 = DateTime::Format::CLDR->new( pattern => 'HH:mm:ss', locale => 'de_AT', time_zone => 'Europe/Vienna', ); my $dt1 = $cldr1->parse_datetime('23:16:42'); print $cldr1->format_datetime($dt1); # 23:16:42 # 2. Get pattern from selected locale # pattern is taken from 'date_format_medium' in DateTime::Locale::de_AT my $cldr2 = DateTime::Format::CLDR->new( locale => 'de_AT', ); print $cldr2->parse_datetime('23.11.2007'); # 2007-11-23T00:00:00 # 3. Croak when things go wrong my $cldr3 = DateTime::Format::CLDR->new( locale => 'de_AT', on_error => 'croak', ); $cldr3->parse_datetime('23.33.2007'); # Croaks # 4. Use DateTime::Locale my $locale = DateTime::Locale->load('en_GB'); my $cldr4 = DateTime::Format::CLDR->new( pattern => $locale->datetime_format_medium, locale => $locale, ); print $cldr4->parse_datetime('22 Dec 1995 09:05:02'); # 1995-12-22T09:05:02 DESCRIPTION This module provides a parser (and also a formater) for datetime strings using patterns as defined by the Unicode CLDR Project (Common Locale Data Repository). . CLDR format is supported by DateTime and DateTime::Locale starting with version 0.40. METHODS Constructor new DateTime::Format::CLDR->new(%PARAMS); The following parameters are used by DateTime::Format::CLDR: * locale Locale. See locale accessor. * pattern (optional) CLDR pattern. If you don't provide a pattern the "date_format_medium" pattern from DateTime::Local for the selected locale will be used. See pattern accessor. * time_zone (optional) Timezone that should be used by default. If your pattern contains timezone information this attribute will be ignored. See time_zone accessor. * on_error (optional) Set the error behaviour. See on_error accessor. * incomplete (optional) Set the behaviour how to handle incomplete date information. See incomplete accessor. Accessors pattern Get/set CLDR pattern. See "CLDR PATTERNS" or "CLDR Patterns" in DateTime for details about patterns. $cldr->pattern('d MMM y HH:mm:ss'); It is possible to retrieve patterns from DateTime::Locale $dl = DateTime::Locale->load('es_AR'); $cldr->pattern($dl->datetime_format_full); time_zone Get/set time_zone. Returns a "DateTime::TimeZone" object. Accepts either a timezone name or a "DateTime::TimeZone" object. $cldr->time_zone('America/Argentina/Mendoza'); OR my $tz = DateTime::TimeZone->new(name => 'America/Argentina/Mendoza'); $cldr->time_zone($tz); locale Get/set a locale. Returns a "DateTime::Locale" object. Accepts either a locale name or a "DateTime::Locale::*" object. $cldr->locale('fr_CA'); OR $dl = DateTime::Locale->load('fr_CA'); $cldr->locale($dl); on_error Get/set the error behaviour. Accepts the following values * 'undef' (Literal) (default) Returns undef on error and sets errmsg * 'croak' Croak on error * CODEREF Run the given coderef on error. incomplete Set the behaviour how to handle incomplete Date information. Accepts the following values * '1' (default) Sets the missing values to '1'. Thus if you only parse a time sting you would get '0001-01-01' as the date. * 'incomplete' Create a DateTime::Incomplete object instead. * CODEREF Run the given coderef on incomplete values. The code reference will be called with the "DateTime::Format::CLDR" object and a hash of parsed values as supplied to "DateTime->new". It should return a modified hash which will be passed to "DateTime->new". Public Methods parse_datetime my $datetime = $cldr->parse_datetime($string); Parses a string and returns a "DateTime" object on success (If you provide incomplete data and set the incomplete attribute accordingly it will return a "DateTime::Incomplete" object). If the string cannot be parsed an error will be thrown (depending on the "on_error" attribute). format_datetime my $string = $cldr->format_datetime($datetime); Formats a "DateTime" object using the set locale and pattern. (not the time_zone) errmsg my $string = $cldr->errmsg(); Stores the last error message. Especially useful if the on_error behavior of the object is 'undef', so you can work out why things went wrong. Exportable functions There are no methods exported by default, however the following are available: cldr_format use DateTime::Format::CLDR qw(cldr_format); &cldr_format($pattern,$datetime); cldr_parse use DateTime::Format::CLDR qw(cldr_parse); &cldr_parse($pattern,$string); OR &cldr_parse($pattern,$string,$locale); Default locale is 'en'. CLDR PATTERNS Parsing Some patterns like day of week, quarter, ect. cannot be used to construct a date. However these patterns can be parsed, and a warning will be issued if they do not match the parsed date. Ambigous patterns (eg. narrow day of week formats for many locales) will be parsed but ignored in datetime calculation. Supported CLDR Patterns See "CLDR Patterns" in DateTime. CLDR provides the following patterns: * G{1,3} The abbreviated era (BC, AD). * GGGG The wide era (Before Christ, Anno Domini). * GGGGG The narrow era, if it exists (and it mostly doesn't). Not used to construct a date. * y and y{3,} The year, zero-prefixed as needed. * yy This is a special case. It always produces a two-digit year, so "1976" becomes "76". * Y{1,} The week of the year, from "$dt->week_year()". * u{1,} Same as "y" except that "uu" is not a special case. * Q{1,2} The quarter as a number (1..4). Not used to construct a date. * QQQ The abbreviated format form for the quarter. Not used to construct a date. * QQQQ The wide format form for the quarter. Not used to construct a date. * q{1,2} The quarter as a number (1..4). Not used to construct a date. * qqq The abbreviated stand-alone form for the quarter. Not used to construct a date. * qqqq The wide stand-alone form for the quarter. Not used to construct a date. * M{1,2} The numerical month. * MMM The abbreviated format form for the month. * MMMM The wide format form for the month. * MMMMM The narrow format form for the month. * L{1,2} The numerical month. * LLL The abbreviated stand-alone form for the month. * LLLL The wide stand-alone form for the month. * LLLLL The narrow stand-alone form for the month. * w{1,2} The week of the year, from "$dt->week_number()". Not used to construct a date. * W The week of the month, from "$dt->week_of_month()". Not used to construct a date. * d{1,2} The numeric day of of the month. * D{1,3} The numeric day of of the year. Not used to construct a date. * F The day of the week in the month, from "$dt->weekday_of_month()". Not used to construct a date. * g{1,} The modified Julian day, from "$dt->mjd()". Not supported by DateTime::Format::CLDR * E{1,3} The abbreviated format form for the day of the week. Not used to construct a date. * EEEE The wide format form for the day of the week. Not used to construct a date. * EEEEE The narrow format form for the day of the week. Not used to construct a date. * e{1,2} The *local* day of the week, from 1 to 7. This number depends on what day is considered the first day of the week, which varies by locale. For example, in the US, Sunday is the first day of the week, so this returns 2 for Monday. Not used to construct a date. * eee The abbreviated format form for the day of the week. Not used to construct a date. * eeee The wide format form for the day of the week. Not used to construct a date. * eeeee The narrow format form for the day of the week. Not used to construct a date. * c The numeric day of the week (not localized). Not used to construct a date. * ccc The abbreviated stand-alone form for the day of the week. Not used to construct a date. * cccc The wide stand-alone form for the day of the week. Not used to construct a date. * ccccc The narrow format form for the day of the week. Not used to construct a date. * a The localized form of AM or PM for the time. * h{1,2} The hour from 1-12. * H{1,2} The hour from 0-23. * K{1,2} The hour from 0-11. * k{1,2} The hour from 1-24. Note that hour 24 is equivalent to midnight on the date being parsed, not midnight of the next day. * j{1,2} The hour, in 12 or 24 hour form, based on the preferred form for the locale. In other words, this is equivalent to either "h{1,2}" or "H{1,2}". * m{1,2} The minute. * s{1,2} The second. * S{1,} The fractional portion of the seconds, rounded based on the length of the specifier. This returned without a leading decimal point, but may have leading or trailing zeroes. * A{1,} The millisecond of the day, based on the current time. In other words, if it is 12:00:00.00, this returns 43200000. Not supported by DateTime::Format::CLDR * z{1,3} The time zone short name. * zzzz The time zone long name. * Z{1,3} The time zone offset. * ZZZZ The time zone short name and the offset as one string, so something like "CDT-0500". * v{1,3} The time zone short name. * vvvv The time zone long name. * V{1,3} The time zone short name. * VVVV The time zone long name. CAVEATS Patterns without separators (like 'dMy' or 'yMd') are ambigous for some dates and might fail. Quote from the Author of "DateTime::Format::Strptime" which also applies to this module: "If your module uses this module to parse a known format: stop it. This module is clunky and slow because it can parse almost anything. Parsing a known format is not so difficult, is it? You'll make your module faster if you do. And you're not left at the whim of my potentially broken code." SUPPORT Please report any bugs or feature requests to "datetime-format-cldr@rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at . I will be notified and then you'll automatically be notified of the progress on your report as I make changes. SEE ALSO datetime@perl.org mailing list DateTime, DateTime::Locale, DateTime::TimeZone and DateTime::Format::Strptime AUTHOR Maroš Kollár CPAN ID: MAROS maros [at] k-1.com http://www.k-1.com COPYRIGHT DateTime::Format::CLDR is Copyright (c) 2008-2012 Maroš Kollár - LICENCE This library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.