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Perl Requires Chilkat v9.5.0.65+

DateTime - Get in ISO 8601 Compatible Format

Demonstrates the GetAsIso8601 method to return the date/time in an ISO 8601 compatible format.

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Chilkat2 Perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $dateTime = Chilkat2::DateTime->new;

$dateTime->SetFromCurrentSystemTime();

my $bLocal = 0;
print 'YYYY-MM-DD: ', $dateTime->GetAsIso8601('YYYY-MM-DD', $bLocal), "\n";
print 'YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD: ', $dateTime->GetAsIso8601('YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD', $bLocal), "\n";
print 'YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD: ', $dateTime->GetAsIso8601('YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD', $bLocal), "\n";

# Sample output:

#     YYYY-MM-DD: 2016-12-02
#     YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD: 2016-12-02T07:04Z
#     YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD: 2016-12-02T07:04:34Z