=head1 NAME APR::Date - Perl API for APR date manipulating functions =head1 Synopsis use APR::Date (); # parse HTTP-complient date string $date_string = 'Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT'; $date_parsed = APR::Date::parse_http($date_string); # parse RFC822-complient date string $date_string = 'Sun, 6 Nov 94 8:49:37 GMT'; $date_parsed = APR::Date::parse_rfc($date_string); =head1 Description C provides the Perl interface to APR date manipulating functions. =head1 API C provides the following functions and/or methods: =head2 C Parse HTTP date strings $date_parsed = parse_http($date_string); =over 4 =item arg1: C<$date_string> ( string ) The date string can be in one of the following formats: Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123 Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 850, obsoleted by RFC 1036 Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994 ; ANSI C's asctime() format refer to RFC2616 for the details (GMT is assumed, regardless of the used timezone). =item ret: C<$date_parsed> ( number ) the number of microseconds since 1 Jan 1970 GMT, or 0 if out of range or if the date is invalid. =item since: 2.0.00 =back Remember to divide the return value by 1_000_000 if you need it in seconds. =head2 C Parse a string resembling an RFC 822 date. It's meant to be lenient in its parsing of dates. Hence, this will parse a wider range of dates than C>. $date_parsed = parse_rfc($date_string); =over 4 =item arg1: C<$date_string> ( string ) The date string can be in one of the following formats: Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123 Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 850, obsoleted by RFC 1036 Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994 ; ANSI C's asctime() format Sun, 6 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123 Sun, 06 Nov 94 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 822 Sun, 6 Nov 94 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 822 Sun, 06 Nov 94 08:49 GMT ; Unknown [drtr\@ast.cam.ac.uk] Sun, 6 Nov 94 08:49 GMT ; Unknown [drtr\@ast.cam.ac.uk] Sun, 06 Nov 94 8:49:37 GMT ; Unknown [Elm 70.85] Sun, 6 Nov 94 8:49:37 GMT ; Unknown [Elm 70.85] =item ret: C<$date_parsed> ( number ) the number of microseconds since 1 Jan 1970 GMT, or 0 if out of range or if the date is invalid. =item since: 2.0.00 =back Remember to divide the return value by 1_000_000 if you need it in seconds. =head1 See Also L. =head1 Copyright mod_perl 2.0 and its core modules are copyrighted under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0. =head1 Authors L. =cut