TimeDate(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation TimeDate(3)

TimeDate - Date and time formatting subroutines

version 2.34

use Date::Format;
use Date::Parse;
# Formatting
print time2str("%Y-%m-%d %T", time);          # 2024-01-15 14:30:00
print time2str("%a %b %e %T %Y\n", time);     # Mon Jan 15 14:30:00 2024
# Parsing
my $time = str2time("Wed, 16 Jun 94 07:29:35 CST");
my ($ss,$mm,$hh,$day,$month,$year,$zone) = strptime("2024-01-15T14:30:00Z");
# Multi-language support
use Date::Language;
my $lang = Date::Language->new('German');
print $lang->time2str("%a %b %e %T %Y\n", time);

The TimeDate distribution provides date parsing, formatting, and timezone handling for Perl.

Parse date strings in a wide variety of formats into Unix timestamps or component values.
Format Unix timestamps or localtime arrays into strings using "strftime"-style conversion specifications.
Format and parse dates in over 30 languages including French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, and many more.
Timezone offset lookups and conversions for named timezones.

Date::Format, Date::Parse, Date::Language, Time::Zone

Graham <gbarr@pobox.com>

This software is copyright (c) 2020 by Graham Barr.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

2026-03-02 perl v5.42.0