Time::gmtime(3pm)

🎀 NAME 🎀

Okay bestie, welcome to Time::gmtime(3pm) from the Perl Programmers Reference Guide — and the whole vibe is literally Time::gmtime, the by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime() function. Periodt. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here are the exact snippets, no cap — copy these and slay:

        use Time::gmtime;
        $gm = gmtime();
        printf "The day in Greenwich is %s\n",
           (qw(Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun))[ $gm->wday() ];

        use Time::gmtime qw(:FIELDS);
        gmtime();
        printf "The day in Greenwich is %s\n",
           (qw(Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun))[ $tm_wday ];

        $now = gmctime();

        use Time::gmtime;
        use File::stat;
        $date_string = gmctime(stat($file)->mtime);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So this module's default exports are highkey doing a little takeover: they override the core gmtime() function and replace 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. That's the whole field-name lineup, bestie. 💅

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 gmctime() function provides a way of getting at the scalar sense of the original CORE::gmtime() function. It's giving "scalar mode, but make it accessible." 🌸

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. Iykyk. 🦋

🦋 NOTE 🦋

While this class is currently implemented using the Class::Struct module to build a struct-like class, you shouldn't rely upon this. That's the tea — do not build your whole personality on that implementation detail. 💀

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Tom Christiansen. Iconic. 👑

---

Big sparkly sign-off: this page comes from perl v5.42.3 and is dated 2026-11-03. Stay iconic, bestie! 🫶💖✨