DateTi...uration(3pm)

💖 DateTime::Format::Natural::Duration — the group chat lore 💖

okay bestie, so this is one of those internal pages from User Contributed Perl Documentation, the 3pm corner of the perl manual. It's the DateTime::Format::Natural::Duration page, which means it's the duration-handling brain cell of the whole DateTime::Format::Natural friend group. It's not the main character, it's the bestie behind the main character. iykyk. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Please see the DateTime::Format::Natural documentation.

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. she said "go read the parent page, bestie, this one isn't for you." 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the DateTime::Format::Natural::Duration class is doing a lot of quiet little jobs behind the scenes, and honestly? obsessed.

• it contains code to alter tokens before parsing — like it's doing a little vibe check on the tokens and fixing them up before the parser even looks at them ✨
• it also has code to insert DateTime objects in the resulting queue — yes queen, sliding whole objects into the queue like she owns the place 👑
• and furthermore, there's code to save the state of the first failing parse and restore it after the duration has been processed — okay so it's literally memory-keeping, it remembers the first parse that flopped, holds onto that state, and puts it back once the duration is done being processed. like a bestie holding your drink while you're on stage. 🫶

no cap, that's the entire described behavior. every single bit of it. she's small but she's mighty. 🦋

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• DateTime::Format::Natural

go there. that's the main character. this page is the supporting cast and she knows it. 💜

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Steven Schubiger <schubiger@cpan.org>

the icon who wrote all of this. give her her flowers. 💐

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📜 LICENSE 📜

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See <http://dev.perl.org/licenses/>

so like — go forth, redistribute, modify, do your thing, as long as you match Perl's own terms. and there's a handy link if you want the ✨ paperwork. ✨

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okay that's the whole page, bestie, and it's giving short but iconic. 🍓

quick sign-off before you go: this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-06-07, and the page lives under the name DateTi...uration(3pm) — yeah, the title got truncated, that's just the man page doing its little truncation thing, not me being mysterious. 🙈 mwah, go read DateTime::Format::Natural. 💖✨🧚