NAME

Date::Lima Perl extension for dates like those from conv_date() in the Lima mudlib (2d4h1m4s).

A brief example

Simple

    use Date::Lima qw/beek_date/;

    for $i (25, 85, 300, 6000, 7654, 10000, 7654321) {
        printf "\%7d seconds: \%s\n", $i, beek_date($i);
    }

Webified

    use Date::Lima qw/:all/;
    use CGI qw/:html/;

    my $a = new CGI;

    set_pre_element_string  $a->start_font({-face=>"helvetica"});
    set_post_element_string $a->end_font;

    for $i (25, 85, 300, 6000, 7654, 10000, 7654321) {
        printf "\%7d seconds: \%s\n", $i, beek_date($i);
    }

Exported Functions

set_pre_element_string

        The single argument hereto is the text to put before
        each duration element.

set_post_element_string

        The single argument hereto is the text to put after
        each duration element.

beek_date

        The first argument is either a number of seconds or
        a duration string in HH:MM:SS format.  It returns
        the date in lima who-list fasion.  It's called
        beek date because, AFAIK, it was written by beek.

Authors

The best way to reach us

<telnet://bakhara.org:4000>

Lord Dorn the God of White Majik

<dorn@bakhara.org> Authored the module the documentation, and did minor re-writes to get the functions to module-like state.

Lord Nichus the God of Black Majik

<nichus@bakhara.org> Wrote all the actual code used to generate the date strings.