Mail::Field::Date(3p)

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 Mail::Field

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

    See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

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

    See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

  "Fake" constructors
$obj->create(OPTIONS)

    See ""Fake" constructors" in Mail::Field

$obj->parse

    See ""Fake" constructors" in Mail::Field

  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 Mail::Field

$obj->tag

Mail::Field::Date->tag

    See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

  Smart accessors
$obj->text([STRING])

    See "Smart accessors" in Mail::Field

$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.

SEE ALSO
This module is part of the MailTools distribution, http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.

AUTHORS
The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr. Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to further 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