```{index} single: Time::Seconds ``` # Time::Seconds a simple API to convert seconds to other date values ## SYNOPSIS ```perl use Time::Piece; use Time::Seconds; my $t = localtime; $t += ONE_DAY; my $t2 = localtime; my $s = $t - $t2; print "Difference is: ", $s->days, "\n"; ``` ## DESCRIPTION This module is part of the Time::Piece distribution. It allows the user to find out the number of minutes, hours, days, weeks or years in a given number of seconds. It is returned by Time::Piece when you delta two Time::Piece objects. Time::Seconds also exports the following constants: ```text ONE_DAY ONE_WEEK ONE_HOUR ONE_MINUTE ONE_MONTH ONE_YEAR ONE_FINANCIAL_MONTH LEAP_YEAR NON_LEAP_YEAR ``` Since perl does not (yet?) support constant objects, these constants are in seconds only, so you cannot, for example, do this: `print ONE_WEEK->minutes;` ## METHODS The following methods are available: ```perl my $val = Time::Seconds->new(SECONDS); $val->seconds; $val->minutes; $val->hours; $val->days; $val->weeks; $val->months; $val->financial_months; # 30 days $val->years; $val->pretty; # gives English representation of the delta ``` The usual arithmetic (+,-,+=,-=) is also available on the objects. The methods make the assumption that there are 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 365.24225 days in a year and 12 months in a year. (from The Calendar FAQ at http://www.tondering.dk/claus/calendar.html) ## AUTHOR Matt Sergeant, matt@sergeant.org Tobias Brox, tobiasb@tobiasb.funcom.com Balázs Szabó (dLux), dlux@kapu.hu ## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2001, Larry Wall. This module is free software, you may distribute it under the same terms as Perl. ## Bugs Currently the methods aren't as efficient as they could be, for reasons of clarity. This is probably a bad idea.