Sympa::Tools::Time(3Sympa)

💖 Sympa::Tools::Time 💖

okay bestie, welcome to Sympa::Tools::Time — that's the 3Sympa manual page from sympa, and she is exactly what she sounds like: the time girlies of the Sympa Perl toolkit. clocks, epochs, midnights, microseconds… it's giving temporal main character energy. 🕰️✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Sympa::Tools::Time — time-related functions 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically this package hands you a lil bundle of time-related functions. that's the whole vibe. no cap. 🦋

🧚 Functions

• date_conv ( $arg ) — Function. TBD. like, the docs literally say TBD bestie, i'm not gonna invent lore for her 💀
• duration_conv ( $arg, [ $startdate ] ) — Function. Also TBD. 🙈 she's mysterious, she's lowkey undocumented, we respect her privacy.
• epoch_conv ( $arg ) — Function. Converts a human format date into an Unix time. (and yeah… also TBD. 😭 iconic honestly)
• get_midnight_time ( $time ) — Function. Returns the Unix time corresponding to the last midnight before date given as argument. 🕛 like she rewinds you to the most recent midnight, the last one that already happened before your date. so slay.
• gettimeofday ( ) — Function. Returns an array "(second, microsecond)" of current Unix time. ⏱️

and listen: if your system does not have the gettimeofday(2) system call, this function emulates it. she'll fake it till she makes it, no shame. 💅

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👑 HISTORY 👑

• Sympa::Tools::Time appeared on Sympa 6.2a.37. 🌱
• gettimeofday() function was introduced on Sympa 6.2.10. ⭐

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🫶 this was sympa 6.2.80, dated 2026-10-19, and yes this is Sympa::Tools::Time(3Sympa) — go forth and timestamp responsibly. periodt. 💖✨🌸🦋🎀