NAME

DateTime::Format::Epoch::ActiveDirectory - Active Directory epoch seconds

SYNOPSIS

  use DateTime::Format::Epoch::ActiveDirectory;

  my $dt = DateTime::Format::Epoch::ActiveDirectory
                ->parse_datetime( 1051488000 );

  DateTime::Format::Epoch::ActiveDirectory->format_datetime($dt);
   # 1051488000

  my $formatter = DateTime::Format::Epoch::ActiveDirectory->new();
  my $dt2 = $formatter->parse_datetime( 1051488000 );
  $formatter->format_datetime($dt2);

DESCRIPTION

This module can convert a DateTime object (or any object that can be converted to a DateTime object) to the number of seconds since the epoch used in Microsoft Active Directory.

Note that this epoch is defined in the local time zone. This means that these two pieces of code will print the same number of seconds, even though they represent two datetimes 6 hours apart:

    $dt = DateTime->new( year => 2003, month => 5, day => 2,
                         time_zone => 'Europe/Amsterdam' );
    print $formatter->format_datetime($dt);

    $dt = DateTime->new( year => 2003, month => 5, day => 2,
                         time_zone => 'America/Chicago' );
    print $formatter->format_datetime($dt);

METHODS

Most of the methods are the same as those in DateTime::Format::Epoch. The only difference is the constructor.

new()

Constructor of the formatter/parser object. It has no parameters.

SUPPORT

Support for this module is provided via the datetime@perl.org email list. See http://lists.perl.org/ for more details.

AUTHOR

Eugene van der Pijll <pijll@gmx.net>