gmtime
function
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 w(:FIELDS; printf "The day in Greenwich is %s\n", (qw(Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun))[ gm_wday() ];
$now = gmctime();
use Time::gmtime; use File::stat; $date_string = gmctime(stat($file)->mtime);
gmtime
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 gmctime
funtion provides a way of getting at the scalar
sense of the original CORE::gmtime() 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.