DateTime::Infinite − Infinite past and future DateTime objects
version 1.52
my $future =
DateTime::Infinite::Future−>new();
my $past = DateTime::Infinite::Past−>new();
This module provides two DateTime.pm subclasses, "DateTime::Infinite::Future" and "DateTime::Infinite::Past".
The objects are in the "floating" timezone, and this cannot be changed.
The only constructor for these two classes is the "new()" method, as shown in the SYNOPSIS . This method takes no parameters.
All "get" methods in this module simply return infinity, positive or negative. If the method is expected to return a string, it returns the string representation of positive or negative infinity used by your system. For example, on my system calling "year()" returns a number which when printed appears either "Inf" or "−Inf".
This also applies to methods that are compound stringifications, which return the same strings even for things like "ymd()" or "iso8601()"
The object is not mutable, so the "set()", "set_time_zone()", and "truncate()" methods are all do-nothing methods that simply return the object they are called with.
Obviously, the "is_finite()" method returns false and the "is_infinite()" method returns true.
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There seem to be lots of problems when dealing with infinite numbers on Win32. This may be a problem with this code, Perl, or Win32’s IEEE math implementation. Either way, the module may not be well-behaved on Win32 operating systems.
Bugs may be submitted at <https://github.com/houseabsolute/DateTime.pm/issues>.
There is a mailing list available for users of this distribution, <mailto:datetime@perl.org>.
I am also usually active on IRC as ’autarch’ on "irc://irc.perl.org".
The source code repository for DateTime can be found at <https://github.com/houseabsolute/DateTime.pm>.
Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
This software is Copyright (c) 2003 − 2020 by Dave Rolsky.
This is free software, licensed under:
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The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this distribution.