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.

METHODS

Constructors

Mail::Field::Date->combine(FIELDS)

See Constructors in the Mail::Field manpage

Mail::Field::Date->extract(TAG, HEAD [, INDEX ])

See Constructors in the Mail::Field manpage

Mail::Field::Date->new(TAG [, STRING | OPTIONS])

See Constructors in the Mail::Field manpage

``Fake'' constructors

$obj->create(OPTIONS)

See ``Fake'' constructors in the Mail::Field manpage

$obj->parse

See ``Fake'' constructors in the Mail::Field manpage

Accessors

$obj->set(OPTIONS)

 Option --Default
 Time     undef
 TimeStr  undef

. Time => SECONDS

. TimeStr => STRING

A string acceptable to Date::Parse.

$obj->stringify

See Accessors in the Mail::Field manpage

$obj->tag

Mail::Field::Date->tag

See Accessors in the Mail::Field manpage

Smart accessors

$obj->text([STRING])

See Smart accessors in the Mail::Field manpage

$obj->time([TIME])

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

DETAILS

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: Undefined subroutine <method> called

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

AUTHORS

The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr. Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without 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 2001-2007 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

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