NAME
   DateTime::Format::W3CDTF - Parse and format W3CDTF datetime strings

SYNOPSIS
     use DateTime::Format::W3CDTF;

     my $w3c = DateTime::Format::W3CDTF->new;
     my $dt = $w3c->parse_datetime( '2003-02-15T13:50:05-05:00' );

     # 2003-02-15T13:50:05-05:00
     $w3c->format_datetime($dt);

DESCRIPTION
   This module understands the W3CDTF date/time format, an ISO 8601
   profile, defined at http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime. This format as
   the native date format of RSS 1.0.

   It can be used to parse these formats in order to create the appropriate
   objects.

METHODS
   This API is currently experimental and may change in the future.

   *   parse_datetime($string)

       Given a W3CDTF datetime string, this method will return a new
       "DateTime" object.

       If given an improperly formatted string, this method may die.

   *   format_datetime($datetime)

       Given a "DateTime" object, this methods returns a W3CDTF datetime
       string.

       NOTE: As of version 0.4, format_datetime no longer attempts to
       truncate datetimes without a time component. This is due to the fact
       that "DateTime" doesn't distinguish between a date with no time
       component, and midnight.

   *   format_date($datetime)

       Given a "DateTime" object, return a W3CDTF datetime string without
       the time component.

SUPPORT
   Support for this module is provided via the [email protected] email
   list. See http://datetime.perl.org/?MailingList for details.

   Please submit bugs to the CPAN RT system at
   http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=datetime-format-w3cdtf or
   via email at [email protected].

AUTHOR
   Dave Rolsky <[email protected]>

CREDITS
   This module is maintained by Gregory Todd Williams <[email protected]>.
   It was originally created by Kellan Elliott-McCrea <[email protected]>.

   This module was inspired by DateTime::Format::ICal

COPYRIGHT
   Copyright (c) 2009 David Rolsky. All rights reserved. This program is
   free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
   terms as Perl itself.

   Copyright (c) 2003 Kellan Elliott-McCrea

   Portions of the code in this distribution are derived from other works.
   Please see the CREDITS file for more details.

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

SEE ALSO
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   http://datetime.perl.org/