---
name: "DateTime::Format::Epoch::ActiveDirectory"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libdatetime-format-epoch-perl"
version: "0.16-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/DateTime::Format::Epoch::ActiveDirectory"
---

# DateTime::Format::Epoch::ActiveDirectory(3pm)

Active Directory epoch seconds

## NAME

DateTime::Format::Epoch::ActiveDirectory -  Active Directory epoch seconds

## SYNOPSIS

```
  use DateTime::Format::Epoch::ActiveDirectory;
  my $dt = DateTime::Format::Epoch::ActiveDirectory
                ->parse_datetime( 1051488000 );
  DateTime::Format::Epoch::ActiveDirectory->format_datetime($dt);
   # 1051488000
  my $formatter = DateTime::Format::Epoch::ActiveDirectory->new();
  my $dt2 = $formatter->parse_datetime( 1051488000 );
  $formatter->format_datetime($dt2);
```

## DESCRIPTION

This module can convert a DateTime object (or any object that can be converted to a DateTime object) to the number of seconds since the epoch used in Microsoft Active Directory.

Note that this epoch is defined in the *local* time zone. This means that these two pieces of code will print the same number of seconds, even though they represent two datetimes 6 hours apart:

```
    $dt = DateTime->new( year => 2003, month => 5, day => 2,
                         time_zone => 'Europe/Amsterdam' );
    print $formatter->format_datetime($dt);
    $dt = DateTime->new( year => 2003, month => 5, day => 2,
                         time_zone => 'America/Chicago' );
    print $formatter->format_datetime($dt);
```

## METHODS

Most of the methods are the same as those in DateTime::Format::Epoch. The only difference is the constructor.

- •

  **new()**

  Constructor of the formatter/parser object. It has no parameters.

## SUPPORT

Support for this module is provided via the datetime@perl.org email list. See http://lists.perl.org/ for more details.

## AUTHOR

Eugene van der Pijll \<pijll@gmx.net\>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2004 Eugene van der Pijll.  All rights reserved.  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

## SEE ALSO

DateTime

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