NAME
Acme::Time::Baby - Tell time little children can understand
SYNOPSIS
use Acme::Time::Baby;
print babytime; # Prints current time.
use Acme::Time::Baby language => 'du';
print babytime "10:15"; # Prints a quarter past ten in a way
# little Dutch children can understand.
DESCRIPTION
Using this module gives you the function "babytime", which will return
the time in the form The big hand is on the ten and the little hand is
on the three. If no argument to "babytime" is given, the current time is
used, otherwise a time of the form *hh:mm* can be passed. Both 12 and 24
hour clocks are supported.
When using the module, various options can be given. The following
options can be passed:
language LANG
The language the time should be told in. The following languages are
currently supported:
en English (this is the default)
br Brazilian Portuguese.
ceb Cebuano (Filipine dialect)
de German.
de_ch Swiss German.
du Dutch.
es Spanish.
fr French.
it Italian.
no Norwegian.
se Swedish.
swedish chef Swedish Chef (from the Muppets).
warez l44+.
If no language argument is given, English is used.
Note that some languages use accented letters. The returned
sentences are correct for an ISO 8859-1 platform.
format STRING
This is the format used to represent the time. It will be passed to
"sprintf", and it should have two %s formatting codes. The other two
arguments to "sprintf" are the position of the minute hand (the big
hand) and the hour hand (the little hand). If you have perl 5.8 or
above, you could use "%2$s" and "%1$s" to reverse the order.
number ARRAYREF
An array with the names of the numbers one to twelve, to be used in
the formatted time.
noimport EXPR
By default, the sub "babytime" will be exported to the calling
package. If for some reason the calling package does not want to
import the sub, there are two ways to prevent this. Either use "use
Acme::Time::Baby ()", which will prevent "Acme::Time::Baby::import"
to be called, or pass "noimport" followed by a true value as
arguments to the "use" statement.
PACKAGE NAME
It has been said this package should be named 'Acme::Time::Toddler',
because it's the language toddlers speak, and not babies.
However, the idea of this package is based on an X application the
author saw more than 10 years before this package was written. It would
display a clock, telling the current time, in a myriad of languages. One
of the languages was *babytalk*, and used a language very similar to the
one in this package. Hence the name of this package.
TODO
Support for more languages.
SEE ALSO
The current sources of this module are found on github,
AUTHOR
Abigail, <mailto:acme-time-baby@abigail.be>.
LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2002 - 2004, 2009 by Abigail.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
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INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install