Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime() function
use Time::gmtime;$gm = gmtime();printf "The day in Greenwich is %s\n", (qw(Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun))[ $gm->wday() ];use Time::gmtime qw(:FIELDS);gmtime();printf "The day in Greenwich is %s\n", (qw(Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun))[ $tm_wday ];$now = gmctime();use Time::gmtime;use File::stat;$date_string = gmctime(stat($file)->mtime);This module's default exports override the core gmtime() function, replacing it with a version that returns "Time::tm" objects. This object has methods that return the similarly named structure field name from the C's tm structure fromtime.h; namely sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year, wday, yday, and isdst.
You may also import all the structure fields directly into your namespace as regular variables using the :FIELDS import tag. (Note that this still overrides your core functions.) Access these fields as variables named with a precedingtm_ in front their method names. Thus,$tm_obj->mday() corresponds to $tm_mday if you import the fields.
The gmctime() function provides a way of getting at the scalar sense of the original CORE::gmtime() function.
To access this functionality without the core overrides, pass theuse an empty import list, and then access function functions with their full qualified names. On the other hand, the built-ins are still available via theCORE:: pseudo-package.
While this class is currently implemented using the Class::Struct module to build a struct-like class, you shouldn't rely upon this.
Tom Christiansen
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