On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, srl wrote:
> Have you looked at Date::ICal?
Thanks for the pointer. I didn't found this on my CPAN mirror.
> What does your module do that Date::ICal doesn't?
I hope that Date::ICal does all I want so I can save the time porting
routines from an old perl script. :)
What I want to do is "next month" in an object oriented fashion. ICal
would allow me to do this:
my $month = $ical->month();
$month += 1; # may become 13
$ical->month($month); # one could add this functionality
That should also be possible with Time-Objects. Or am I missing
something? Just for my understanding, could ICal be made an extension
for Time-Objects by adding the parsing routines for the ICal-format?
With my module, you just say $month->next(); regardless of the month. It
is the navigation in time I'm interested in. $time->month() is nothing I
paid special attention to so far.
Time::OO->new()
constructor
$time->N->value()
Gets or sets the value of the name N where N is from
second, minute, hour, day, month, year, ...
Currently accepts integer values only.
$time->N->Ms()
Returns constants for M lower than N (both taken from
the set above). Example: $time->minute->seconds();
I'm not fully satisfied with the naming.
$time->N->in_M()
Unit converstion within the set of names N. For both,
N lower than M and N greater than M. (to be done)
$time->N->forward()
$time->N->backward()
Move forward and backward in time, respecting any
boundaries for the resulting numerical values.
Currently only for integer values.
$time->N->next()
$time->N->former()
Move forward or backward one unit in time.
$time->N->modulus()
Value at which the value of the next higher
object is incremented. (v0.1.1)
$time->N->remaining()
Remaining units until value wraps back to 0.
$time->epoch()
Get or set the time in seconds since epoch (v0.1.1)
$time->as_string()
Convenience method to call POSIX::strftime
Yes, this is highly unfinished work. I will continue to work on it if
there is no other module with the same functionality yet.
Regards
-Winfried
