Re: DateTime normalize

I also get the same error that you get when I run your code.

I have no experience with DateTime, but looking at its POD, I notice that now() is always accessed as:

DateTime->now();
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and never the way you are trying to use it:

$dt->now();
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Perhaps now() (whatever it does) was never meant to be called that way? There seem to be no bug reports for this.

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Re^2: DateTime normalize by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 25, 2009 at 17:25 UTC
Correct. `now` creates a new object and initialises it to the current time. `my $dt = DateTime->now(); my $dt = DateTime->now( time_zone => 'local' );` [download] The OP appears to be trying to format the timestamp into a string. For this, he has a number of options. He could construct the formatted timestamp himself. There are getters to get each individual components, there are getters that return the date in a couple of simple formats, and there's a getter that returns the time. He could use `$dt->strftime`, which returns the contained date and/or time in just about any format you can imagine. There's also the option of using a (parsing and) formatting helper module. These are typically named DateTime::Format::<format> (e.g. DateTime::Format::Atom).	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: DateTime normalize
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 25, 2009 at 17:25 UTC

Correct. now creates a new object and initialises it to the current time.

my $dt = DateTime->now();
my $dt = DateTime->now( time_zone => 'local' );
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The OP appears to be trying to format the timestamp into a string. For this, he has a number of options.

He could construct the formatted timestamp himself. There are getters to get each individual components, there are getters that return the date in a couple of simple formats, and there's a getter that returns the time.
He could use $dt->strftime, which returns the contained date and/or time in just about any format you can imagine.
There's also the option of using a (parsing and) formatting helper module. These are typically named DateTime::Format::<format> (e.g. DateTime::Format::Atom).