DateTi...ng::en(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

ok so this is DateTime::Format::Flexible::lang::en — the english language plugin 💅 she's the one who speaks English for DateTime::Format::Flexible and she eats every single time 🇬🇧✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

bestie. listen. you should not need to use this module directly. she's a backstage queen, not a main character module. let her do her job in the background, okay?

if you only wanna use one language, just say so with the lang property when you're parsing a date. like:

my $dt = DateTime::Format::Flexible->parse_datetime(
    'Wed, Jun 10, 2009' ,
    lang => ['en']
);
# $dt is now 2009-06-10T00:00:00

but ngl? that's not required. by default ALL languages are scanned when it's trying to parse a date. she's thorough like that 💖

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🎀 new

instantiates a new instance of this module. new module, who dis ✨

🦋 months

month name regular expressions along with the month numbers, iykyk:

Jan(?:uary)? => 1

🌈 days

day name regular expressions along the the day numbers:

Mon(?:day)? => 1

⭐ day_numbers

maps day of month names to the corresponding numbers, so first => 01 🥇

💜 hours

maps hour names to numbers, like noon => 12:00:00 🕛 iconic behaviour

🍓 remove_strings

strings to remove from the date — rd as in 3rd. she's just tidying up, no biggie 🧹

🧚 parse_time

searches for the string 'at' to help determine a time substring, as in sunday at 3:00 ⏰ the way she just finds the at… obsessed

💅 string_dates

maps string names to real dates: now => DateTime->now ✨

👑 relative

parses relative dates — ago => ago, from => from now, next => next, last => last. time is a construct and she's fluent in it 🕰️

🔥 math_strings

useful strings when doing datetime math. numbers? math? she said say less 🧮

💀 timezone_map

maps unofficial timezones to official timezones for this language — CST => America/Chicago 🌎 no more timezone chaos, periodt

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

Tom Heady
CPAN ID: thinc
Punch, Inc.
cpan@punch.net
http://www.punch.net/

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🌟 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE 🌟

Copyright 2011 Tom Heady.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

• the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or
• the Artistic License.

two license options?? she's flexible in every way, not just with dates 😭✨

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• DateTime::Format::Flexible — the parent, the blueprint, the moment 💫

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and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 💅 this was DateTi...ng::en(3pm) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, running on perl v5.40.0, dated 2025-01-11. go forth and parse dates, you absolute icon 🎀🦋💖