NAME

Meta::Utils::File::Time - library to help you with file time stamps.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Time.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.13

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Utils::File::Time qw();
        my($ok)=Meta::Utils::File::Time::now($file1);

DESCRIPTION

This module eases the case for getting and setting file modification times.

FUNCTIONS

        time($)
        mtime($)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

time($)

This routine receives: 0. file - file for which the modification time is required. The routine then proceeds to use the stat function to find the files modification time and returns it.

mtime($)

This function receives: 0. file - file for which the modification time is required. This method proceeds to use the File::stat module to get the info for this file and get the modification time for the file. If the file does not exist the method returns 0 (very old file 1/1/1970).

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV html site update
        0.01 MV perl packaging
        0.02 MV md5 project
        0.03 MV database
        0.04 MV perl module versions in files
        0.05 MV movies and small fixes
        0.06 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.07 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.08 MV website construction
        0.09 MV web site automation
        0.10 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.11 MV bring movie data
        0.12 MV teachers project
        0.13 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

File::stat(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.