NAME

Mail::Field::Date - a date header field

INHERITANCE

Mail::Field::Date is a Mail::Field

SYNOPSIS

use HTTP::Date time2iso; my $field = Mail::Field->new(Date => time2iso());

DESCRIPTION

Represents one Date header field.

Extends DESCRIPTION in Mail::Field.

METHODS

Extends METHODS in Mail::Field.

Constructors

Extends Constructors in Mail::Field.

Mail::Field::Date->combine($fields)

Inherited, see Constructors in Mail::Field

Mail::Field::Date->extract( $tag, $head [, $index ] )

Inherited, see Constructors in Mail::Field

Mail::Field::Date->new( $tag [, STRING | %options] )

Inherited, see Constructors in Mail::Field

"Fake" constructors

Extends "Fake constructors" in Mail::Field.

$obj->create(%options)

Inherited, see "Fake constructors" in Mail::Field

$obj->parse()

Inherited, see "Fake constructors" in Mail::Field

Accessors

Extends Accessors in Mail::Field.

$obj->set(%options)

-Option --Default Time undef TimeStr undef

Time => SECONDS

TimeStr => STRING

A string acceptable to Date::Parse.

$obj->stringify()

Inherited, see Accessors in Mail::Field

$obj->tag()

Mail::Field::Date->tag()

Inherited, see Accessors in Mail::Field

Smart accessors

Extends Smart accessors in Mail::Field.

$obj->text( [STRING] )

Inherited, see Smart accessors in Mail::Field

$obj->time( [$time] )

Query (or change) the $time (as stored in the field) in seconds.

DETAILS

Extends DETAILS in Mail::Field.

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: Undefined subroutine <method> called

Mail::Field objects use autoloading to compile new functionality. Apparently, the method called is not implemented for the specific class of the field object.

SEE ALSO

This module is part of the MailTools distribution, http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.

AUTHORS

The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr. Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to further development.

Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>. Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek <poe@cit.dk>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

LICENSE

Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2017 Mark Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html