Package DateTime::Precise version 0.03 This is the DateTime::Precise package. This module provides for the representation and manipulation of (almost) arbitrary locations in time. DateTime.pm is not intended to be a replacement for any of the existing Date:: or Time:: modules, but you may find it useful as a supplement. Notable features: * Date and time can include fractional seconds. * Date is represented internally by an array of year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, and fractions of seconds. Using this method, dates as far back as the start of the Gregorian calendar) can be used. * Methods are provided for doing date/time calculations. Increment and decrement, as well as round, floor and ceil functions by unit (second through year) are provided, as well as simple date-difference operations. * Methods are provided for input from and output to user-specified formats (dprintf, dscanf, get_time, set_time, strftime). This module is based on the DateTime module written by Greg Fast (gdfast@usgs.gov). REQUIREMENTS * Perl 5.004_04 or greater. AVAILABILITY The latest version of this package is available from a CPAN archive near you in CPAN/authors/id/B/BZ/BZAJAC/DateTime-Precise-0.03.tar.gz or from the author by contacting Blair Zajac . INSTALLATION In order to use this package you will need Perl version 5.004_04 or better. Once that is completed, you install Proc::Generic as you would install any perl module library, by running these commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install If you want to install a private copy of this package in some other directory, then you should try to produce the initial Makefile with something like this command: perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/perl DOCUMENTATION See the CHANGES file for a list of recent changes. POD style documentation is included in all modules and scripts. These are normally converted to manual pages end installed as part of the "make install" process. You should also be able to use the 'perldoc' utility to extract documentation from the module files directly. COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1998 Blair Zajac. All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.