NAME Dpchrist::Timestamp - generate time stamps DESCRIPTION This documentation describes module revision $Revision: 1.22 $. This is alpha test level software and may change or disappear at any time. SYNOPSIS In a Perl script: #! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Dpchrist::Timestamp qw( :all ); my $local_timestamp = timestamp(); my $zulu_timestamp = timestampz(); In a shell script: #! /usr/bin/bash LOCALTIMESTAMP=`timestamp` ZULUTIMESTAMP=`timestampz` DESCRIPTION This Perl library contains two functions, *timestamp()* and *timestampz*(), which return strings representing the local time or UTC time (Zulu). Local time time stamps are of the format "YYYYMMDD-hhmmss". UTC time (Zulu) time stamps are of the format "YYYYMMDDThhmmssZ". The distribution also includes Perl scripts named *timestamp* and *timestampz*, which print the corresponding strings to STDOUT (newline terminated) for use in shell scripts, etc.. EXPORT None by default. All of the subroutines may be imported by using the ':all' tag: use Dpchrist::Timestamp qw( :all ); INSTALLATION Old school: $ perl Makefile.PL $ make $ make test $ make install Minimal: $ cpan Dpchrist::Timestamp Complete: $ cpan Bundle::Dpchrist PREREQUISITES See Makefile.PL in the source distribution root directory. SEE ALSO Perl's time(), gmtime(), and localtime() functions timestamp timestampz AUTHOR David Paul Christensen dpchrist@holgerdanske.com COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2010 by David Paul Christensen dpchrist@holgerdanske.com This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.