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This module replaces the standard localtime and gmtime functions with
implementations that return objects. It does so in a backwards
compatible manner, so that using localtime/gmtime in the way documented
in perlfunc will still return what you expect.
The module actually implements most of an interface described by Larry
Wall on the perl5-porters mailing list here:
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-01/msg00241.html
Authors: Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Time-Piece/
-- Anton