NAME Date::Tie - a perlish interface to dates SYNOPSIS use Date::Tie; tie %date, 'Date::Tie'; %date = { year => 2001, month => 11, day => '09' }; $date{year}++; $date{month} += 12; # 2003-11-09 # you can also do this $date = Date::Tie->new( year => 2001, month => 11, day => '09' ); $date->{year}++; $date->{month} += 12; # 2003-11-09 DESCRIPTION Date::Tie is an attempt to simplify date operations syntax. Date::Tie manages a hash containing the keys: epoch, utc_epoch, year, month, day, hour, minute, second, yearday, week, weekday, weekyear, tz, tzhour, tzminute. Whenever a new value is stored in a key, it will change the other keys following the common (ISO) date rules. For example: print $a{hour}, ":", $a{minute}; # 00:59 $a{minute}++; print $a{hour}, ":", $a{minute}; # 01:00 AUTHOR Fl�vio Soibelmann Glock (fglock@gmail.com)