CPAN & Date::Time

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Hi,

Can't find anything similar to this problem in these groups, so I'm
hoping someone can help me...

I'm trying to install the Date::Time module and it dependencies via
CPAN.

When I enter:

# perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Time'

I get the message:

The module Date::Time isn't available on CPAN.

So, in a CPAN shell I then enter:

i /Date::Time/

....and the module is listed correctly. What am I doing wrong?

TIA,

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[James Willmore]

Hi,

Can't find anything similar to this problem in these groups, so I'm
hoping someone can help me...

I'm trying to install the Date::Time module and it dependencies via
CPAN.

When I enter:

# perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Time'

I get the message:

The module Date::Time isn't available on CPAN.

So, in a CPAN shell I then enter:

i /Date::Time/

...and the module is listed correctly. What am I doing wrong?

TIA,

check.

DateTime, instead of Date::Time ... I think ;-)

--
Jim

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time to reform. -- Mark Twain

 

[Ben Morrow]

I'm trying to install the Date::Time module and it dependencies via
CPAN.

When I enter:

# perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Time'

I get the message:

The module Date::Time isn't available on CPAN.

So, in a CPAN shell I then enter:

i /Date::Time/

...and the module is listed correctly. What am I doing wrong?

cpan> i /Date::Time/
Module id = Date::Time
DESCRIPTION Lightweight normalised datetime data type
CPAN_USERID TOBIX (Tobias Brox <[email protected]>)
CPAN_VERSION undef
CPAN_FILE Contact Author Tobias Brox <[email protected]>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
DSLI_STATUS idpO (idea,developer,perl,object-oriented)
^^^^
INST_FILE (not installed)

So, as it said, the module is not available via CPAN.

Ben

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

So, as it said, the module is not available via CPAN.

But it can of course be downloaded from CPAN...

http://search.cpan.org/~tobix/OO-DateTime-0.01/

This is the top of the Time.pm file:

package Date::Time::UnixTime;

# Some methods dealing with Unix timestamps are to be
# implemented here.

1;

package Date::Time;

Maybe that explains the failure to download it using CPAN.pm?

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

But it can of course be downloaded from CPAN...

http://search.cpan.org/~tobix/OO-DateTime-0.01/

On the other hand, the module does not do anything. When it was
uploaded at 2 March 2000, it was said to be "at the idea/design stage"...

So OP should better find some other module, anyway.

 

[check]

DateTime, instead of Date::Time ... I think ;-)

Thanks, you are correct. Got myself in a bit of a muddle about this -
Your help is much appreciated.

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