DateTime::Infinite3pm

Usage

  my $future = DateTime::Infinite::Future->new;
  my $past   = DateTime::Infinite::Past->new;

Version

version 1.67

Overview

This module provides two DateTime subclasses, "DateTime::Infinite::Future" and "DateTime::Infinite::Past".

The objects are always in the "floating" timezone, and this cannot be changed.

Methods

The only constructor for these two classes is the "new" method, as shown in the "SYNOPSIS". This method takes no parameters.

All "get" methods in this module simply return infinity, positive or negative. If the method is expected to return a string, it returns the string representation of positive or negative infinity used by your system. For example, on my system calling "$dt->year"> returns a number which when printed appears either "Inf" or "-Inf".

This also applies to methods that are compound stringifications, which return the same strings even for things like "$dt->ymd" or "$dt->iso8601"

The object is not mutable, so the "$dt->set", "$dt->set_time_zone", and "$dt->truncate" methods are all do-nothing methods that simply return the object they are called with.

Obviously, the "$dt->is_finite" method returns false and the "$dt->is_infinite" method returns true.

Source

The source code repository for DateTime can be found at <https://github.com/houseabsolute/DateTime.pm>.

Copyright and license

This software is Copyright (c) 2003 - 2026 by Dave Rolsky.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this distribution.