NAME
   DateTime::Tiny - A date object, with as little code as possible

SYNOPSIS
     # Create a date manually
     $christmas = DateTime::Tiny->new(
         year   => 2006,
         month  => 12,
         day    => 25,
         hour   => 10,
         minute => 45,
         second => 0,
         );

 # Show the current date
     my $now = DateTime::Tiny->now;
     print "Year   : " . $now->year   . "\n";
     print "Month  : " . $now->month  . "\n";
     print "Day    : " . $now->day    . "\n";
     print "Hour   : " . $now->hour   . "\n";
     print "Minute : " . $now->minute . "\n";
     print "Second : " . $now->second . "\n";

DESCRIPTION
   DateTime::Tiny is a most prominent member of the DateTime::Tiny suite of
   time modules.

   It implements an extremely lightweight object that represents a
   datetime.

 The Tiny Mandate
   Many CPAN modules which provide the best implementation of a certain
   concepts are very large. For some reason, this generally seems to be
   about 3 megabyte of ram usage to load the module.

   For a lot of the situations in which these large and comprehensive
   implementations exist, some people will only need a small fraction of
   the functionality, or only need this functionality in an ancillary role.

   The aim of the Tiny modules is to implement an alternative to the large
   module that implements a useful subset of their functionality, using as
   little code as possible.

   Typically, this means a module that implements between 50% and 80% of
   the features of the larger module (although this is just a guideline),
   but using only 100 kilobytes of code, which is about 1/30th of the
   larger module.

 The Concept of Tiny Date and Time
   Due to the inherent complexity, Date and Time is intrinsically very
   difficult to implement properly.

   The arguably only module to implement it completely correct is DateTime.
   However, to implement it properly DateTime is quite slow and requires
   3-4 megabytes of memory to load.

   The challenge in implementing a Tiny equivalent to DateTime is to do so
   without making the functionality critically flawed, and to carefully
   select the subset of functionality to implement.

   If you look at where the main complexity and cost exists, you will find
   that it is relatively cheap to represent a date or time as an object,
   but much much more expensive to modify, manipulate or convert the
   object.

   As a result, DateTime::Tiny provides the functionality required to
   represent a date as an object, to stringify the date and to parse it
   back in, but does not allow you to modify the dates.

   The purpose of this is to allow for date object representations in
   situations like log parsing and fast real-time type work.

   The problem with this is that having no ability to modify date limits
   the usefulness greatly.

   To make up for this, if you have DateTime installed, any DateTime::Tiny
   module can be inflated into the equivalent DateTime as needing, loading
   DateTime on the fly if necesary.

   This is somewhat similar to DateTime::LazyInit, but unlike that module
   DateTime::Tiny is not modifiable.

   For the purposes of date/time logic, all DateTime::Tiny objects exist in
   the "C" locale, and the "floating" time zone. This may be improved in
   the future if a suitably tiny way of handling timezones is found.

   When converting up to full DateTime objects, these local and time zone
   settings will be applied (although an ability is provided to override
   this).

   In addition, the implementation is strictly correct and is intended to
   be very easily to sub-class for specific purposes of your own.

METHODS
   In general, the intent is that the API be as close as possible to the
   API for DateTime. Except, of course, that this module implements less of
   it.

 new
     my $date = DateTime::Tiny->new(
         year   => 2006,
         month  => 12,
         day    => 31,
         hour   => 10,
         minute => 45,
         second => 32,
         );

   The "new" constructor creates a new DateTime::Tiny object.

   It takes six named params. "day" should be the day of the month (1-31),
   "month" should be the month of the year (1-12), "year" as a 4 digit
   year. "hour" should be the hour of the day (0-23), "minute" should be
   the minute of the hour (0-59) and "second" should be the second of the
   minute (0-59).

   These are the only params accepted.

   Returns a new DateTime::Tiny object.

 now
     my $current_date = DateTime::Tiny->now;

   The "now" method creates a new date object for the current date.

   The date created will be based on localtime, despite the fact that the
   date is created in the floating time zone.

   Returns a new DateTime::Tiny object.

 year
   The "year" accessor returns the 4-digit year for the date.

 month
   The "month" accessor returns the 1-12 month of the year for the date.

 day
   The "day" accessor returns the 1-31 day of the month for the date.

 hour
   The "hour" accessor returns the hour component of the time as an integer
   from zero to twenty-three (0-23) in line with 24-hour time.

 minute
   The "minute" accessor returns the minute component of the time as an
   integer from zero to fifty-nine (0-59).

 second
   The "second" accessor returns the second component of the time as an
   integer from zero to fifty-nine (0-59).

 ymdhms
   The "ymdhms" method returns the most common and accurate stringified
   date format, which returns in the form "2006-04-12".

 from_string
   The "from_string" method creates a new DateTime::Tiny object from a
   string.

   The string is expected to be an ISO 8601 time, with seperators.

     my $almost_midnight = DateTime::Tiny->from_string( '2006-12-20T23:59:59' );

   Returns a new DateTime::Tiny object, or throws an exception on error.

 as_string
   The "as_string" method converts the date to the default string, which at
   present is the same as that returned by the "ymd" method above.

   This string matches the ISO 8601 standard for the encoding of a date as
   a string.

 DateTime
   The "DateTime" method is used to create a DateTime object that is
   equivalent to the DateTime::Tiny object, for use in comversions and
   caluculations.

   As mentioned earlier, the object will be set to the 'C' locate, and the
   'floating' time zone.

   If installed, the DateTime module will be loaded automatically.

   Returns a DateTime object, or throws an exception if DateTime is not
   installed on the current host.

SUPPORT
   Bugs should be reported via the CPAN bug tracker at

   <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=DateTime-Tiny>

   For other issues, or commercial enhancement or support, contact the
   author.

AUTHOR
   Adam Kennedy <[email protected]>

SEE ALSO
   DateTime, Date::Tiny, Time::Tiny, Config::Tiny, ali.as

COPYRIGHT
   Copyright 2006 - 2009 Adam Kennedy.

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

   The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
   with this module.

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