Date::Language(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Date::Language(3)

# [NAME](#NAME)

Date::Language - Language specific date formatting and parsing

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

```
  use Date::Language;
  my $lang = Date::Language->new('German');
  $lang->time2str("%a %b %e %T %Y\n", time);
```

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

Date::Language provides objects to parse and format dates for specific languages. Available languages are

```
  Afar                    French                  Russian_cp1251
  Amharic                 Gedeo                   Russian_koi8r
  Austrian                German                  Sidama
  Brazilian               Greek                   Somali
  Chinese                 Hungarian               Spanish
  Chinese_GB              Icelandic               Swedish
  Czech                   Italian                 Tigrinya
  Danish                  Norwegian               TigrinyaEritrean
  Dutch                   Oromo                   TigrinyaEthiopian
  English                 Romanian                Turkish
  Finnish                 Russian                 Bulgarian
  Occitan
```

# [METHODS](#METHODS)

[time2str](#time2str)

See "time2str" in Date::Format

[strftime](#strftime)

See "strftime" in Date::Format

[ctime](#ctime)

See "ctime" in Date::Format

[asctime](#asctime)

See "asctime" in Date::Format

[str2time](#str2time)

See "str2time" in Date::Parse

[strptime](#strptime)

See "strptime" in Date::Parse

2026-10-24 perl v5.44.0

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Document: Date::Language(3pm) from perl-timedate 2.35-r4 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/atoomic/perl-TimeDate