---
name: "Date::Language"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl-timedate"
version: "2.35-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Date::Language"
---

# Date::Language(3pm)

Language specific date formatting and parsing

## NAME

Date::Language - Language specific date formatting and parsing

## VERSION

version 2.35

## SYNOPSIS

```
  use Date::Language;
  my $lang = Date::Language->new('German');
  $lang->time2str("%a %b %e %T %Y\n", time);
```

## DESCRIPTION

Date::Language provides objects to parse and format dates for specific languages. Available languages are

```
  Afar                    French                  Russian_cp1251
  Amharic                 Gedeo                   Russian_koi8r
  Austrian                German                  Sidama
  Brazilian               Greek                   Somali
  Chinese                 Hungarian               Spanish
  Chinese_GB              Icelandic               Swedish
  Czech                   Italian                 Tigrinya
  Danish                  Norwegian               TigrinyaEritrean
  Dutch                   Oromo                   TigrinyaEthiopian
  English                 Romanian                Turkish
  Finnish                 Russian                 Bulgarian
  Occitan
```

## NAME

Date::Language - Language specific date formatting and parsing

## METHODS

- time2str

  See "time2str" in Date::Format

- strftime

  See "strftime" in Date::Format

- ctime

  See "ctime" in Date::Format

- asctime

  See "asctime" in Date::Format

- str2time

  See "str2time" in Date::Parse

- strptime

  See "strptime" in Date::Parse

## AUTHOR

Graham \<gbarr@pobox.com\>

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2020 by Graham Barr.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.