Why not adopt me?
NAME
Email::Date - Find and Format Date Headers
VERSION
version 1.104
SYNOPSIS
use Email::Date;
my $email = join '', <>;
my $date = find_date($email);
print $date->ymd;
my $header = format_date($date->epoch);
Email::Simple->create(
header => [
Date => $header,
],
body => '...',
);
DESCRIPTION
Achtung! Probably you'll be find just using Email::Date::Format to produce dates or Date::Parse to parse dates. This module isn't much needed anymore, but does provide find_date
, described below.
RFC 2822 defines the Date:
header. It declares the header a required part of an email message. The syntax for date headers is clearly laid out. Stil, even a perfectly planned world has storms. The truth is, many programs get it wrong. Very wrong. Or, they don't include a Date:
header at all. This often forces you to look elsewhere for the date, and hoping to find something.
For this reason, the tedious process of looking for a valid date has been encapsulated in this software. Further, the process of creating RFC compliant date strings is also found in this software.
FUNCTIONS
find_date
my $time_piece = find_date $email;
find_date
accepts an email message in any format Email::Abstract can understand. It looks through the email message and finds a date, converting it to a Time::Piece object.
If it can't find a date, it returns false.
find_date
is exported by default.
format_date
my $date = format_date; # now
my $date = format_date( time - 60*60 ); # one hour ago
format_date
accepts an epoch value, such as the one returned by time
. It returns a string representing the date and time of the input, as specified in RFC 2822. If no input value is provided, the current value of time
is used.
format_date
is exported by default.
format_gmdate
my $date = format_gmdate;
format_gmdate
is identical to format_date
, but it will return a string indicating the time in Greenwich Mean Time, rather than local time.
format_gmdate
is exported on demand, but not by default.
AUTHORS
Casey West
Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2004 by Casey West.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.