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NAME
       Date::Manip::Config - Date::Manip configuration

SYNOPSIS
       This documents the configuration information which is stored in each
       Date::Manip::Base object, how to modify this information, and how the
       information is used in the other Date::Manip modules.

DESCRIPTION
       Date::Manip is a very configurable bundle of modules. Many of it's
       behaviors can be modified to change how date operations are done.  To
       do this, a list of configuration variables may be set which define many
       Date::Manip behaviors.

       There are three ways to set config variables. The first two are to pass
       them in when creating an object, or to pass them to the config method
       after the object is created. All of the main Date::Manip modules
       (Date::Manip::Base, Date::Manip::TZ, Date::Manip::Date,
       Date::Manip::Delta, and Date::Manip::Recur) have the config method.

       As an example, you can create and configure a Date::Manip::Date object
       using the commands:

	  $date = new Date::Manip::Date;
	  $date->config($var1,$val1,$var2,$val2,...);

       This can be shortened to:

	  $date = new Date::Manip::Date [$var1,$val1,...];

       The values of the config variables are stored in the Date::Manip::Base
       object. So, if you have a Date::Manip::Date object, it has a
       Date::Manip::Base object associated with it, and the configuration
       information is stored there. The same Date::Manip::Base object may be
       used by any number of higher objects, and all will share the same
       configuration. If multiple Date::Manip::Date objects share the same
       Date::Manip::Base object, setting a configuration variable on any of
       them affects all of the Date::Manip::Date objects. If you need to work
       with different configurations simultaneously, it is necessary to work
       with multiple Date::Manip::Base objects. This is covered in the
       Date::Manip::Objects document.

       The third way to set config variables is to store them in a config
       file. The config file is read in by passing the appropriate values to
       the config method as described below.  A config file is a good way to
       easily change a large number of settings. They are also necessary for
       other purposes (such as events and holidays which are covered in the
       Date::Manip::Holidays document).

CONFIG FILES
       One of the variables that can be passed to the config method is
       "ConfigFile". The value of this variable is the path to a config file.
       A description of the file format and contents is described below.

       When any Date::Manip::* object is configured, any number of config
       files may be read (and the config files can specify additional files to
       read).

       The starting section of a config file contains general configuration
       variables. A list of all config variables is given below.

       Following this, any number of special sections may be included in the
       config file. The special sections are used to specify other types of
       information, such as a list of holidays or special events.  These
       special sections are described elsewhere in the documentation.

       The syntax of the config file is very simple. Every line is of the
       form:

	  VAR = VAL

       or

	  *SECTION

       Blank lines and lines beginning with a pound sign (#) are ignored.  All
       whitespace is optional. Variables names in the main section and section
       names are case insensitive (though values in the main section are
       typically case sensitive). Strings in other sections (both variables
       and values) are case sensitive.

       The following is a sample config file:

	  DateFormat = US
	  Language   = English

	  *Holidays

	  Dec 25 =  Christmas
	  Jan 1	 =  New Year's

       All config variables that may appear in the main part of a config file
       are described in the next section. Other sections are described
       elsewhere.  The *Holidays and *Events sections are both described in
       the Date::Manip::Holidays documentation.

       A sample config file is included with the Date::Manip distribution.
       Modify it as appropriate and copy it to some appropriate directory and
       use the ConfigFile variable to access it. For example, if a config file
       is stored in /home/foo/Manip.cnf, you can load it by:

	  $date->config("ConfigFile","/home/foo/Manip.cnf");

       NOTE: if you use business mode calculations, you must have a config
       file since this is the only place where you can define holidays.

       In the top section, only variables described below may be used. In
       other sections, checking (if any) is done in the module that uses the
       data from that section.

BASIC CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
       This section describes the basic Date::Manip configuration variables
       which can be used in a config file, or which may be passed in using the
       appropriate functions for each module.

       Variable names are case insensitive, both as arguments to the config
       function and in the config file. The values are case sensitive except
       where specified otherwise.

       Defaults
	   The value for this config variable is ignored. Whenever the
	   Defaults config variable is encountered, the defaults for all
	   config variables are restored, overriding ALL changes that have
	   been made.

	   In other words, in the following call:

	      $date->config("Language","Russian",
			    "Defaults","1");

	   the first option will end up being ignored since the Defaults
	   config variable will set the language back to it's default value
	   which is English.

       ConfigFile
	   The ConfigFile variable defines a config file which will be parsed
	   for configuration information. It may be included any number of
	   times, each one including the path to a single config file. The
	   value of this variable is a full path to a file.

	   An example call to the config function might be:

	      $date->config("ConfigFile","/tmp/file1",
			    "ConfigFile","/tmp/file2");

	   Config files are parsed immediately. So if the file '/tmp/file1'
	   contains the following lines:

	      ConfigFile = /tmp/file3
	      ConfigFile = /tmp/file4

	   the following sequence of events occur:

	   First, /tmp/file1 is opened. All options from it are parsed until
	   you get to the first ConfigFile line.

	   At that point, /tmp/file3 is parsed and all config variables stored
	   (and they override any previously stored from /tmp/file1).

	   Next, you continue with /tmp/file1 until the second ConfigFile line
	   is seen at which point /tmp/file4 is parsed.

	   Finally, any remaining lines in /tmp/file1 are parsed. Then
	   /tmp/file2 is parsed.

	   The path to the file may be specified in any way valid for the
	   operating system. If a file is not found, a warning will be issued,
	   but execution will continue.

	   Multiple config files are safe, and a section may safely be split
	   across multiple files.

       Language
	   Date::Manip can be used to parse dates in many different languages.
	   A list of the languages is given in the Date::Manip::Lang document.

	   To parse dates in a different language, just use the Language
	   config variable with the name of the language as the value.
	   Language names are case insensitive.

	   Additional languages may be added with the help of someone fluent
	   in English and the other language.  If you are interested in
	   providing a translation for a new language, please refer to the
	   Date::Manip::Lang document for instructions.

       Encoding
	   Date::Manip has some support for handling date strings encoded in
	   alternate character encodings.

	   By default, input strings may be tested using multiple encodings
	   that are commonly used for the specific languages, as well as using
	   standard perl escape sequences, and output is done in UTF-8.

	   The input, output, or both can be overridden using the Encoding
	   variable.

	   Setting Encoding to the name of a single encoding (a name supported
	   by the Encoding perl module), will force all input and output to be
	   done in that encoding.

	   So, setting:

	      Encoding = iso-8859-1

	   means that all input and output will be in that encoding. The
	   encoding 'perl' has the special meaning of storing the string in
	   perl escape sequences.

	   Encoding can also be set to the name of two encoding (separated by
	   a comma).

	      Encoding = iso-8859-1,utf-16

	   which means that all input is in iso-8859-1 encoding, but all
	   output will be utf-16.

	   Encoding may also be set as follows:

	      Encoding = iso-8859-1,

	   meaning that input is in iso-8859-1 and output is in the default
	   (i.e.  UTF-8) encoding.

	      Encoding = ,utf-16

	   means to check the input in all of the encodings, but all output
	   will be in utf-16 encoding.

	   Note that any time you change languages, it will reset the
	   encodings, so you should set this config variable AFTER setting the
	   language.

       DateFormat
	   Different countries look at the date 12/10 as Dec 10 or Oct 12.  In
	   the United States, the first is most common, but this certainly
	   doesn't hold true for other countries.  Setting DateFormat to "US"
	   (case insensitive) forces the first behavior (Dec 10).  Setting
	   DateFormat to anything else forces the second behavior (Oct 12).
	   The "US" setting is the default (sorry about that...	 I live in the
	   US :-).

       YYtoYYYY
	   When parsing a date containing a 2-digit year, the year must be
	   converted to 4 digits. This config variable determines how this is
	   done.

	   By default, a 2 digit year is treated as falling in the 100 year
	   period of CURR-89 to CURR+10. So in the year 2005, a two digit year
	   will be somewhere in the range 1916 to 2015.

	   YYtoYYYY may be set to any integer N to force a 2 digit year into
	   the period CURR-N to CURR+(99-N).  A value of 0 forces the year to
	   be the current year or later.  A value of 99 forces the year to be
	   the current year or earlier.	 Although the most common choice of
	   values will be somewhere between 0 and 99, there is no restriction
	   on N that forces it to be so. It can actually be any positive or
	   negative number you want to force it into any 100 year period
	   desired.

	   YYtoYYYY can also be set to "C" to force it into the current
	   century, or to "C##" to force it into a specific century.  So, in
	   1998, "C" forces 2 digit years to be 1900-1999.  "C18" would always
	   force a 2 digit year to be in the range 1800-1899. Note: I'm aware
	   that the actual definitions of century are 1901-2000, NOT
	   1900-1999, so for purists, treat this as the way to supply the
	   first two digits rather than as supplying a century.

	   It can also be set to the form "C####" to force it into a specific
	   100 year period.  C1950 refers to 1950-2049.

       FirstDay
	   It is sometimes necessary to know what day of week is regarded as
	   first.  By default, this is set to Monday as that conforms to ISO
	   8601, but many countries and people will prefer Sunday (and in a
	   few cases, a different day may be desired).	Set the FirstDay
	   variable to be the first day of the week (1=Monday, 7=Sunday).

       Jan1Week1
	   ISO 8601 states that the first week of the year is the one which
	   contains Jan 4 (i.e. it is the first week in which most of the days
	   in that week fall in that year).  This means that the first 3 days
	   of the year may be treated as belonging to the last week of the
	   previous year.  If this is set to non-nil, the ISO 8601 standard
	   will be ignored and the first week of the year contains Jan 1.

       Printable
	   Some commands may produce a printable version of a date. By
	   default, the printable version of the date is of the format:

	      YYYYMMDDHH:MN:SS

	   Two other simple versions have been created. If the Printable
	   variable is set to 1, the format is:

	      YYYYMMDDHHMNSS

	   If Printable is set to 2, the format is:

	      YYYY-MM-DD-HH:MN:SS

	   This config variable is present in order to maintain backward
	   compatibility, and may actually be deprecated at some point. As
	   such, additional formats will not be added. Instead, use the printf
	   method in the Date::Manip::Date module to extract information with
	   complete flexibility.

       DefaultTime
	   When a date is parsed from one of the formats listed in the "Common
	   date formats" or "Less common formats" sections of the
	   Date::Manip::Date document, and no time is explicitly included, the
	   default time can be determined by the value of this variable. The
	   two possible values are:

	      midnight	 the default time is 00:00:00
	      curr	 the default time is the current time

	   "midnight" is the default value.

	   NOTE: this only applies to dates parsed with the parse method.
	   Dates parsed using the parse_date method always default to
	   00:00:00.

       PeriodTimeSep
	   By default, the only default time separator is a colon (:), so the
	   time can be written as 12:15:30 .

	   If you want to use a period (.) as a time separator as well, set
	   this to 1.  Then you can write the time as 12.15.30 .

	   By default, a period is used as a date separator, so 12.15.30 would
	   be interpreted as Dec 15 1930 (or 2030), so if you use the period
	   as a date separator, it should not be used as a time separator too.

BUSINESS CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
       These are configuration variables used to define work days and holidays
       used in business mode calculations. Refer to the Date::Manip::Calc
       documentation for details on these calculations.

       WorkWeekBeg
       WorkWeekEnd
	   The first and last days of the work week.  These default to Monday
	   and Friday.	Days are numbered from 1 (Monday) to 7 (Sunday).
	   WorkWeekBeg must come before WorkWeekEnd numerically so there is no
	   way to handle a work week of Sunday to Thursday using these
	   variables.

	   There is also no way to handle an odd work schedule such as 10 days
	   on, 4 days off.

	   However, both of these situations can be handled using a fairly
	   simple workaround.

	   To handle a work week of Sunday to Thursday, just set WorkWeekBeg=1
	   and WorkWeekEnd=7 and defined a holiday that occurs every Friday
	   and Saturday.

	   To handle a 10 days on, 4 days off schedule, do something similar
	   but defined a holiday that occurs on all of the 4 days off.

	   Both of these can be done using recurrences. Refer to the
	   Date::Manip::Recur documentation for details.

       WorkDay24Hr
       WorkDayBeg
       WorkDayEnd
	   If WorkDay24Hr is non-zero, a work day is treated as usually being
	   24 hours long (daylight saving time changes ARE taken into
	   account).  The WorkDayBeg and WorkDayEnd variables are ignored in
	   this case.

	   By default, WorkDay24Hr is zero, and the work day is defined by the
	   WorkDayBeg and WorkDayEnd variables. These are the times when the
	   work day starts and ends respectively. WorkDayBeg must come before
	   WorkDayEnd (i.e. there is no way to handle the night shift where
	   the work day starts one day and ends another).

	   The time in both should be a valid time format (H, H:M, or H:M:S).

	   Note that setting WorkDay24Hr to a non-zero value automatically
	   sets WorkDayBeg and WorkDayEnd to "00:00:00" and "24:00:00"
	   respectively, so to switch back to a non-24 hour day, you will need
	   to reset both of those config variables.

	   Similarly, setting either the WorkDayBeg or WorkDayEnd variables
	   automatically turns off WorkDay24Hr.

       TomorrowFirst
	   Periodically, if a day is not a business day, we need to find the
	   nearest business day to it.	By default, we'll look to "tomorrow"
	   first, but if this variable is set to 0, we'll look to "yesterday"
	   first.  This is only used in the
	   Date::Manip::Date::nearest_business_day method (and the
	   Date_NearestWorkDay function) and is easily overridden (see
	   documentation for the nearest_business_day method).

       EraseHolidays
       EraseEvents
	   If these variables are used (a value must be passed in, but is
	   ignored), the current list of defined holidays or events is erased.
	   A new set will be set the next time a config file is read in.

	   Although these variables are supported, the best way to have
	   multiple holiday or events lists will be to create multiple
	   Date::Manip::Base objects based on separate config files.

RECURRENCE CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
       The following config variables help in the handling of recurrences.

       RecurRange
	   When a recurrence is created, it begins with a default range (start
	   and end date). The range selected depends on the value of this
	   variable, and can be set to any of the following:

	      none     no default range supplied
	      year     the current year
	      month    the current month
	      week     the current week
	      day      the current day
	      all      Jan 2, 0001 to Dec 30, 9999

	   The default value is "none".

TIME ZONE RELATED CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
       The following configuration variables may alter the current time zone.
       As such, they are only available once the Date::Manip::TZ module is
       available. An easy way to handle this is to only pass them to the
       config method of a Date::Manip::TZ object or one of the high level
       objects (Date::Manip::Date, Date::Manip::Delta, or Date::Manip::Recur).

       Many of Date::Manip's operations rely on knowing what time it is now.
       This consists of three things: knowing what date and time it is,
       knowing what time zone it is, and knowing whether it is daylight saving
       or not. All of this is necessary in order to correctly handle every
       possible date.

       The daylight saving time is only used for a couple hours each year
       during daylight saving time changes (at all other times, the date,
       time, and time zone are sufficient information), so it is optional, and
       defaults to standard time if omitted.

       The default behavior of Date::Manip is to use the system localtime
       function to determine the date, time, and daylight saving time
       information, and to use various methods (see DETERMINING THE SYSTEM
       TIME ZONE in the Date::Manip::TZ documentation) to determine what time
       zone the computer is in.

       TZ  This variable is deprecated, but will be supported for several
	   releases. The SetDate or ForceDate variables (described next)
	   should be used instead.

	   The following are equivalent:

	       $date->config("tz","Europe/Rome");
	       $date->config("setdate","now,Europe/Rome");

       SetDate
	   The SetDate config variable is used to set the current date, time,
	   or time zone, but then allow it to change over time using the rules
	   of that time zone.

	   There are several cases where this may be useful.

	   Often, you may want to use the system time to get the date and
	   time, but you want to work in another time zone. For this, use the
	   call:

	      $date->config("setdate","now,ZONE");

	   If it is currently

	      Jun 6, 2009 12:00:00 in the America/New_York time zone

	   and you call:

	      $date->config("setdate","Europe/Rome");

	   the Date::Manip will treat that exact instant as

	      Jun 6, 2009 12:00:00 in the Europe/Rome time zone

	   At that precise moment, looking at the system time and parsing the
	   date "now" in Date::Manip will give the same date and time.

	   The time will continue to advance, but it will use time change
	   rules from the Europe/Rome time zone. What that means is that if a
	   daylight saving time occurs on the computer, but NOT in the
	   Europe/Rome time zone (or vice versa), the system date and time
	   will no longer match the results of parsing the date "now" in
	   Date::Manip.

	   In general (unless the program runs for an extended period of
	   time), the system date and time WILL match the value of "now", so
	   this is a good way to simulate placing the computer in another time
	   zone.

	   If the current date/time is ambiguous (i.e. it exists in both
	   standard and daylight saving time in the alternate zone), you can
	   use the call:

	      $date->config("setdate","now,DSTFLAG,ZONE");

	   to force it to be in one or the other. DSTFLAG can be "std", "dst",
	   "stdonly", or "dstonly". "std" and "dst" mean that the date can be
	   in either standard or saving time, but will try standard first (for
	   "dst") or saving time first (if "dst"), and will only try the other
	   if the date is not valid. If "stdonly" or "dstonly" is used, the
	   date will be forced to be standard or saving time respectively (an
	   error will be triggered if there is no valid date in that time).

	   If the current date/time doesn't exist in the alternate zone, an
	   error will occur.

	   The other common operation is that you might want to see results as
	   they would appear on a computer running in a different time zone.

	   This can be done using the call:

	      $date->config("setdate","zone,ZONE");
	      $date->config("setdate","zone,DSTFLAG,ZONE");

	   If it is currently

	      Jun 6, 2009 12:00:00 in the America/New_York time zone

	   and you call:

	      $date->config("setdate","zone,America/Chicago");

	   then parsing "now" at precisely that moment will return "Jun 6,
	   2009 11:00:00".  This is equivalent to working in the current zone,
	   but then converting everything to the alternate zone.

	   Note that DSTFLAG is only used if ZONE is entered as an offset.

	   The final case where the SetDate config variable is used is to
	   alter the date and time to some other value (completely independent
	   of the current date and time) and allow it to advance normally from
	   that point.

	      $date->config("setdate","DATE");
	      $date->config("setdate","DATE,ZONE");
	      $date->config("setdate","DATE,DSTFLAG,ZONE");

	   set both the date/time and zone.

	   If DATE is not valid in the time zone (either the local time zone
	   or the specified one), and error occurs.

	   The call:

	      $date->config("setdate","now");

	   resets everything to use the current date/time and zone and lets it
	   advance normally.

       ForceDate
	   The ForceDate config variable is similar to the SetDate variable,
	   except that once "now" is set, it is not allowed to change. Parsing
	   the date "now" will not change, regardless of how long the program
	   runs (unless either the SetDate or ForceDate variables are set to
	   some other value).

	      $date->config("forcedate","now,ZONE");
	      $date->config("forcedate","now,DSTFLAG,ZONE");
	      $date->config("forcedate","zone,ZONE");
	      $date->config("forcedate","zone,DSTFLAG,ZONE");
	      $date->config("forcedate","DATE");
	      $date->config("forcedate","DATE,ZONE");
	      $date->config("forcedate","DATE,DSTFLAG,ZONE");
	      $date->config("forcedate","now");

	   all set "now" in the same way as the SetDate variable.  Spaces
	   after commas are ignored.

       ZONE can be any time zone name, alias, abbreviation, or offset, and the
       best time zone will be determined from all given information.

       It should be noted that setting the SetDate or ForceDate variable twice
       will always refer to the system date/time as a starting point.  For
       example, if a program is running, and calls the method:

	  $date->config("forcedate","now");

       at Jun 6, 2009 at 12:00, that time will be treated as now from that
       point on. If the same call is done an hour later, "now" will then be
       Jun 6, 2009 at 13:00 from that moment on.

       Since the current date is used in the date parsing routines, no parsing
       can be done on the DATE value in any of the calls.  Instead, DATE must
       be a date in one of the two formats:

	  YYYY-MM-DD-HH:MN:SS
	  YYYYMMDDHH:MN:SS

DEPRECATED CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
       The following config variables are currently supported, but are
       deprecated.  They will be removed in a future Date::Manip release:

       TZ  This is discussed above. Use SetDate or ForceDate instead.

	   Scheduled for removal 2013-12-01 .

       IntCharSet
	   If set to 0, use the US character set (7-bit ASCII) to return
	   strings such as the month name.  If set to 1, use the appropriate
	   international character set.	 For example, If you want your French
	   representation of December to have the accent over the first "e",
	   you'll want to set this to 1.

	   Scheduled for removal 2012-10-01 .

       RecurNumFudgeDays
	   This is no longer used since recurrences were reworked in 6.20.

	   Scheduled for removal 2012-12-01 .

KNOWN BUGS
       None known.

BUGS AND QUESTIONS
       Please refer to the Date::Manip::Problems documentation for information
       on submitting bug reports or questions to the author.

SEE ALSO
       Date::Manip	  - main module documentation

LICENSE
       This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR
       Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org)

perl v5.14.2			  2012-09-10		Date::Manip::Config(3)
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