POSIX::strftime::Compiler(3)

NAME
POSIX::strftime::Compiler - GNU C library compatible strftime for loggers and servers

SYNOPSIS
    use POSIX::strftime::Compiler qw/strftime/;

    say strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %T %z',localtime):

    my $fmt = '%a, %d %b %Y %T %z';
    my $psc = POSIX::strftime::Compiler->new($fmt);
    say $psc->to_string(localtime);

DESCRIPTION
POSIX::strftime::Compiler provides GNU C library compatible strftime(3). But this module will not affected by the system locale. This feature is useful when you want to write loggers, servers and portable applications.

For generate same result strings on any locale, POSIX::strftime::Compiler wraps POSIX::strftime and converts some format characters to perl code

FUNCTION

strftime($fmt:String, @time)
    Generate formatted string from a format and time.

      my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime();
      strftime('%d/%b/%Y:%T %z',$sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst):

    Compiled codes are stored in %POSIX::strftime::Compiler::STRFTIME. This function is not exported by default.

METHODS

new($fmt)
    create instance of POSIX::strftime::Compiler

to_string(@time)
    Generate formatted string from time.

FORMAT CHARACTERS
POSIX::strftime::Compiler supports almost all characters that GNU strftime(3) supports. But %E[cCxXyY] and %O[deHImMSuUVwWy] are not supported, just remove E and O prefix.

A RECOMMEND MODULE

Time::TZOffset
    If Time::TZOffset is available, P::s::Compiler use it for more faster time zone offset calculation. I strongly recommend you to install this if you use %z.

PERFORMANCE ISSUES ON WINDOWS
Windows and Cygwin and some system may not support %z and %Z. For these system, POSIX::strftime::Compiler calculate time zone offset and find zone name. This is not fast. If you need performance on Windows and Cygwin, please install Time::TZOffset

SEE ALSO

POSIX::strftime::GNU
    POSIX::strftime::Compiler is built on POSIX::strftime::GNU::PP code

POSIX
Apache::LogFormat::Compiler

LICENSE
Copyright (C) Masahiro Nagano.

Format specification is based on strftime(3) manual page which is a part of the Linux man-pages project.

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

AUTHOR
Masahiro Nagano <kazeburo@gmail.com>