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Time::localtime(3)                                          Time::localtime(3)



NAME
     Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime()
     function

SYNOPSIS
      use Time::localtime;
      printf "Year is %d\n", localtime->year() + 1900;

      $now = ctime();

      use Time::localtime;
      use File::stat;
      $date_string = ctime(stat($file)->mtime);


DESCRIPTION
     This module's default exports override the core localtime() function,
     replacing it with a version that returns "Time::tm" objects.  This object
     has methods that return the similarly named structure field name from the
     C's tm structure from time.h; namely sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year,
     wday, yday, and isdst.

     You may also import all the structure fields directly into your namespace
     as regular variables using the :FIELDS import tag.  (Note that this still
     overrides your core functions.)  Access these fields as variables named
     with a preceding tm_ in front their method names.  Thus, $tm_obj->mday()
     corresponds to $tm_mday if you import the fields.

     The ctime() funtion provides a way of getting at the scalar sense of the
     original CORE::localtime() function.

     To access this functionality without the core overrides, pass the use an
     empty import list, and then access function functions with their full
     qualified names.  On the other hand, the built-ins are still available
     via the CORE:: pseudo-package.

NOTE
     While this class is currently implemented using the Class::Struct module
     to build a struct-like class, you shouldn't rely upon this.

AUTHOR
     Tom Christiansen













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