DateTime::Locale::FromData - Class for locale objects instantiated from pre-defined data
version 1.16
my $locale = DateTime::Locale::FromData->new(%lots_of_data)
This class is used to represent locales instantiated from the data in the DateTime::Locale::Data module.
This class provides the following methods:
$locale->code
The complete locale id, something like "en-US".
$locale->language_code
The language portion of the code, like "en".
$locale->script_code
The script portion of the code, like "Hant".
$locale->territory_code
The territory portion of the code, like "US".
$locale->variant_code
The variant portion of the code, like "POSIX".
$locale->name
The locale's complete name, which always includes at least a language component, plus optional territory and variant components. Something like "English United States". The value returned will always be in English.
$locale->language
$locale->script
$locale->territory
$locale->variant
The relevant component from the locale's complete name, like "English" or "United States".
$locale->native_name
The locale's complete name in localized form as a UTF-8 string.
$locale->native_language
$locale->native_script
$locale->native_territory
$locale->native_variant
The relevant component from the locale's complete native name as a UTF-8 string.
The following methods all return an array reference containing the specified data.
The methods with "format" in the name should return strings that can be used a part of a string, like "the month of July". The stand alone values are for use in things like calendars as opposed to a sentence.
The narrow forms may not be unique (for example, in the day column heading for a calendar it's okay to have "T" for both Tuesday and Thursday).
The wide name should always be the full name of thing in question. The narrow name should be just one or two characters.
$locale->month_format_wide
$locale->month_format_abbreviated
$locale->month_format_narrow
$locale->month_stand_alone_wide
$locale->month_stand_alone_abbreviated
$locale->month_stand_alone_narrow
$locale->day_format_wide
$locale->day_format_abbreviated
$locale->day_format_narrow
$locale->day_stand_alone_wide
$locale->day_stand_alone_abbreviated
$locale->day_stand_alone_narrow
$locale->quarter_format_wide
$locale->quarter_format_abbreviated
$locale->quarter_format_narrow
$locale->quarter_stand_alone_wide
$locale->quarter_stand_alone_abbreviated
$locale->quarter_stand_alone_narrow
$locale->am_pm_abbreviated
$locale->era_wide
$locale->era_abbreviated
$locale->era_narrow
The following methods return strings appropriate for the DateTime->format_cldr method:
DateTime->format_cldr
$locale->date_format_full
$locale->date_format_long
$locale->date_format_medium
$locale->date_format_short
$locale->time_format_full
$locale->time_format_long
$locale->time_format_medium
$locale->time_format_short
$locale->datetime_format_full
$locale->datetime_format_long
$locale->datetime_format_medium
$locale->datetime_format_short
A locale may also offer one or more formats for displaying part of a datetime, such as the year and month, or hour and minute.
$locale->format_for($name)
These are accessed by passing a name to $locale->format_for(...), where the name is a CLDR-style format specifier.
$locale->format_for(...)
The return value is a string suitable for passing to $dt->format_cldr, so you can do something like this:
$dt->format_cldr
print $dt->format_cldr( $dt->locale->format_for('MMMdd') )
which for the "en" locale would print out something like "08 Jul".
Note that the localization may also include additional text specific to the locale. For example, the "MMMMd" format for the "zh" locale includes the Chinese characters for "day" (日) and month (月), so you get something like "8月23日".
$locale->available_formats
This should return a list of all the format names that could be passed to $locale->format_for.
$locale->format_for
There are also some miscellaneous methods:
$locale->prefers_24_hour_time
Returns a boolean indicating whether or not the locale prefers 24-hour time.
$locale->first_day_of_week
Returns a number from 1 to 7 indicating the local first day of the week, with Monday being 1 and Sunday being 7.
$locale->version
The CLDR version from which this locale was generated.
Bugs may be submitted at https://github.com/houseabsolute/DateTime-Locale/issues.
There is a mailing list available for users of this distribution, mailto:datetime@perl.org.
I am also usually active on IRC as 'autarch' on irc://irc.perl.org.
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The source code repository for DateTime-Locale can be found at https://github.com/houseabsolute/DateTime-Locale.
Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2003 - 2017 by Dave Rolsky.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this distribution.
To install DateTime::Locale, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm DateTime::Locale
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install DateTime::Locale
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.