NAME
   Time::Tiny - A time object, with as little code as possible

VERSION
   version 1.07

SYNOPSIS
     # Create a time manually
     $christmas = Time::Tiny->new(
         hour   => 10,
         minute => 45,
         second => 0,
         );

     # Show the current time
     $now = Time::Tiny->now;
     print "Hour   : " . $now->hour   . "\n";
     print "Minute : " . $now->minute . "\n";
     print "Second : " . $now->second . "\n";

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

   It implements an extremely lightweight object that represents a time,
   without any time data.

 The Tiny Mandate
   Many CPAN modules which provide the best implementation of a concept can
   be 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 subset of the 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, 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 or convert the object.

   As a result, Time::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 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 Time::Tiny
   module can be inflated into the equivalent DateTime as needing, loading
   DateTime on the fly if necessary.

   For the purposes of date/time logic, all Time::Tiny objects exist in the
   "C" locale, and the "floating" time zone (although obviously in a pure
   date context, the time zone largely doesn't matter).

   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.

USAGE
   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.

METHODS
 new
     # Create a Time::Tiny object for midnight
     my $midnight = Time::Tiny->new(
         hour   => 0,
         minute => 0,
         second => 0,
     );

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

   It takes three named parameters. "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 parameters accepted.

   Returns a new Time::Tiny object.

 now
     my $current_time = Time::Tiny->now;

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

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

   This means that the time created by "now" is somewhat lossy, but since
   the primary purpose of Time::Tiny is for small transient time objects,
   and not for use in calculations and comparisons, this is considered
   acceptable for now.

   Returns a new Time::Tiny object.

 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).

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

   The string is expected to be an "hh:mm:ss" type ISO 8601 time string.

     my $almost_midnight = Time::Tiny->from_string( '23:59:59' );

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

 as_string
   The "as_string" method converts the time object to an ISO 8601 time
   string, with separators (see example in "from_string").

   Returns a string.

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

   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.

HISTORY
   This module was written by Adam Kennedy in 2006. In 2016, David Golden
   adopted it as a caretaker maintainer.

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

SUPPORT
 Bugs / Feature Requests
   Please report any bugs or feature requests through the issue tracker at
   <https://github.com/dagolden/Time-Tiny/issues>. You will be notified
   automatically of any progress on your issue.

 Source Code
   This is open source software. The code repository is available for
   public review and contribution under the terms of the license.

   <https://github.com/dagolden/Time-Tiny>

     git clone https://github.com/dagolden/Time-Tiny.git

AUTHORS
   *   Adam Kennedy <[email protected]>

   *   David Golden <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
   This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Adam Kennedy.

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

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