NAME Date::Time2fmtstr - Functions to format Perl time integers to strings based on a "Picture" format string. AUTHOR Jim Turner (c) 2015-2019, Jim Turner under the same license that Perl 5 itself is. All rights reserved. SYNOPSIS use Date::Time2fmtstr; my $timestring = time2str(time, 'mm-dd-yyyy hh:mi PM'); die $timestring if ($timestring =~ /^e\:/); print "Current date/time (formatted): $timestring.\n"; DESCRIPTION Date::Time2fmtstr provides a single function time2str that accepts a standard Perl (Unix) "time" value (a large integer equivalent to the number of seconds since 1980) and converts it to a string value based on a *format-string* consisting of special substrings which represent the various parts of a date and time value. It returns a string that is essentially the same as the original *format-string* with each of these special substrings replaced with the corresponding date/time value. METHODS $string = time2str(*time*, *format-string*); Returns a string corresponding to the specified *format-string* with each special substring replaced with the corresponding date/time data field. For example: $s = &time2str(1452324044, 'mm-dd-yyyy hh:mi PM (Day) (Month)'); would set $s to '01-09-2016 01:20 AM (Sat) (January)'. Special Formatting Substrings There are numerous choices of special format substrings which can be used in an infinite number of combinations to produce the desired results. They are listed below: a, p - display "a" if between Midnight and Noon, "p" otherwise (both specifiers are identical). A, P - display "A" if between Midnight and Noon, "P" otherwise (both specifiers are identical). am, pm - display "am" if between Midnight and Noon, "pm" otherwise (both specifiers are identical). AM, PM - display "AM" if between Midnight and Noon, "PM" otherwise (both specifiers are identical). day - Three letter abbreviation of the day of the week in all lower case, ie. "sun". Day - Three letter abbreviation of the day of the week capitalized, ie. "Sun". DAY - Three letter abbreviation of the day of the week all capitalized, ie. "SUN". dayofweek - Day of the week in all lower case, ie. "sunday". Dayofweek - Day of the week capitalized, ie. "Sunday". DAYOFWEEK - Day of the week all capitalized, ie. "SUNDAY". ddd - Num. of days since beginning of year. NOTE: This is calculated by adding the number of SECONDS (86400 per day) to midnight, 1/1/current-year, so if spanning a daylight-savings time boundary may result in +1 hour difference, which the underlying Perl localtime/timelocal functions will take into account! For example, if the current time was "1570286966" (2019/10/05 09:49:26), the following code: print &time2str(&str2time(&time2str(1570286966, 'ddd, hh:mi:ss'), 'ddd, hh:mi:ss'), 'yyyy/mm/dd hh:mi:ss') . "\n"; would print "2019/10/05 10:49:26" due to the fact that 1 hour (3600 seconds) was automatically skipped over when DST was imposed between 1 January and 5 October. This "feature" only applies when calculating the date/time based on days since beginning of the year ("ddd"). dd - Day of month (2 digits, left padded with a zero if needed), ie. "03" for March. d0, d - Numeric day of the week zero-based (Sunday=0, Monday=1, ... Saturday=6). d1 - Day of month (1 or 2 digits, as needed), ie. "3" for March. hh - Hour in common format (left padded with a zero if needed for 2 digits), ie. 01-12. hhmi - Hours and minutes in 12-hour time (hours and minutes no colon, left padded with a zero if needed for 4 digits). hhmiss - Hours, minutes and seconds in 12-hour time (no colon, left padded with a zero if needed for 6 digits). hh24, HHmi - Military time (hours and minutes: 24 hours, no colon), left padded with a zero if needed for 4 digits). h1 - Hour in common format, 1 or 2 digits, as needed, ie. 1-12. (see AM and PM specifiers). h1mi - Hours and minutes in 12-hour time (hours and minutes no colon). Returns 3 or 4 digits as needed. HH - Hour in 24-hour format, 2 digits, left padded with a zero if needed, ie. 00-23. H1 - Hour in 24-hour format, 1 or 2 digits, as needed, ie. 0-23. HHmiss - Hours, minutes and seconds in 24-hour (military) time (no colon, left padded with a zeros if needed for 6 digits). mi - Minute, (2 digits, left padded with a zero if needed), ie. 00-59. mm - Number of month (2 digits, left padded with a zero if needed), ie. "01" for January. mmdd - Numeric date in 4 digits, ie. "0107" for January, 7, (current year). mmddyy - Numeric date in 6 digits, ie. "010715" for January 7, 2015. mmddyyyy - Numeric date in 8 digits, ie. "01072015" for January 7, 2015. mmmm - Minutes since start of day (0000-3599). mmm0 - Minutes since start of day (0-3599). mmyy - Numeric date in 4 digits, ie. "0115" for January, 2015. mmyyyy - Numeric date in 6 digits, ie. "012015" for January, 2015. mon - Three letter abbreviation of the month, in lower case, ie. "jan" for January. Mon - Three letter abbreviation of the month, capitalized, ie. "Jan" for January. MON - Three letter abbreviation of the month all capitalized, ie. "JAN" for January. month - The Full name of the month in all lower case, ie. "january". Month - The Full name of the month capitalized, ie. "January". MONTH - The Full name of the month all capitalized, ie. "JANUARY". m1 - Number of month (1 or 2 digits, as needed), ie. "1" for January. q - Number of the quarter of the year - (1-4). rm - Roman numeral for the month (i-xii) in lower case. RM - Roman numeral for the month (I-XII) in upper case. ss - Seconds since start of last minute (2 digits), ie. 00-59. sssss - Seconds since start of day (00000-86399). ssss0 - Seconds since start of day (0-86399). w - Number of week (one-based) of the month (1-5). ww - Number of week (one-based) of the year (1-52). yy, rr - Year in last 2 digits. yymm - Numeric date in 4 digits, ie. "1501" for January, 2015. yymmdd - Numeric date in 6 digits, ie. "150107" for January 7, 2015. yyyy, rrrr - Year in 4 digits. yyyymm - Numeric date in 6 digits, ie. "201501" for January, 2015. yyyymmdd - Numeric date in 8 digits, ie. "20150107" for January 7, 2015. yyyymmddhhmi - Numeric date/time in 12 digits, ie. "201501071345" for January 7, 2015 1:45pm. yyyymmddhhmiss - Numeric date/time in 14 digits, ie. "20150107134512" for January 7, 2015 1:45:12pm. DEPENDENCIES Perl 5 RECCOMENDS Date::Fmtstr2time BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-Date-Time2fmtstr at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at . I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. 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