NAME Media::DateTime - A simple module to extract the timestamp from media files in an flexible manner. VERSION version 0.49 SYNOPSIS use DateTime; use Media::DateTime; my $dt = Media::DateTime->datetime( $file ); # or more cleanly OO my $dater = Media::DateTime->new; my $dt = $dater->datetime( $file ); DESCRIPTION Provides a very simple, but highly extensible method of extracting the creation date and time from a media file (any file really). The base module comes with support for JPEG files that store the creation date in the exif header. Plugins can be written to support any file format. See the "Media::DateTime::JPEG" module for an example. If no plugin is found for a particular file (or the plugin returns a false vale) the file creation date as specified by the O/S is used. Returns a "DateTime" object. METHODs new Constructor that returns a "Media::DateTime" object. Methods can be called on either the class or an instance. my $dt = Media::DateTime->new; datetime Takes a file as an arguement and returns a "DateTime" object representing its creation date. Falls back to the creation date specified by the filesystem if no plugin is available. my $dt = Media::DateTime->datetime( $file ); # or my $dt = $dater->datetime( $file ); SEE ALSO See the excellent "DateTime" module which simplifies the handling of dates. See "Module::Pluggable" and "Module::Pluggable::Ordered" which are used to implement the plugin system. "Image::Info" is used to extract data from JPEG files for the "Media::DateTime::JPEG" plugin. Make sure you have configured the local time zone on your machine. See "DateTime::TimeZone::Local" for information on how the timezone is determined. AUTHOR Mark Grimes, COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Mark Grimes, . This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.