API:EPrints/MetaField/Time

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NAME

EPrints::MetaField::Time - date + time

DESCRIPTION

Can store a time value upto seconds granularity. The time must be in UTC because this field can not store the time zone part.

The value is set and returned as a string formatted as:

  YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss

Where:

  YYYY - year
  MM - month (01-12)
  DD - day (01-31)
  hh - hours (00-23)
  mm - minutes (00-59)
  ss - seconds (00-59)

Note: if you set the time using ISO datetime format (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ) it will automatically be converted into the native format.

PROPERTIES

In addition to those properties available in EPrints::MetaField::Date and EPrints::MetaField:

render_res

Reduce the resolution the date is shown as.

• "second"
• "minute"
• "hour"

METHODS

iso_value

$datetime = $time->iso_value( $dataobj )

Returns the value of this field from $dataobj in ISO datetime format (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ).

Returns undef if the value is unset.

SEE ALSO

EPrints::MetaField::Date.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2000-2011 University of Southampton.

This file is part of EPrints http://www.eprints.org/.

EPrints is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

EPrints is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with EPrints. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.