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Hi,

Can't find anything similar to this problem in these groups, so I'm
hoping someone can help me...

I'm trying to install the Date::Time module and it dependencies via
CPAN.

When I enter:

# perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Time'

I get the message:

The module Date::Time isn't available on CPAN.

So, in a CPAN shell I then enter:

i /Date::Time/

....and the module is listed correctly. What am I doing wrong?

TIA,

check.

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:30:49 -0800, check wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can't find anything similar to this problem in these groups, so I'm
> hoping someone can help me...
>
> I'm trying to install the Date::Time module and it dependencies via
> CPAN.
>
> When I enter:
>
> # perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Time'
>
> I get the message:
>
> The module Date::Time isn't available on CPAN.
>
> So, in a CPAN shell I then enter:
>
> i /Date::Time/
>
> ...and the module is listed correctly. What am I doing wrong?
>
> TIA,
>
> check.

DateTime, instead of Date::Time ... I think

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(check) wrote:
> I'm trying to install the Date::Time module and it dependencies via
> CPAN.
>
> When I enter:
>
> # perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Time'
>
> I get the message:
>
> The module Date::Time isn't available on CPAN.
>
> So, in a CPAN shell I then enter:
>
> i /Date::Time/
>
> ...and the module is listed correctly. What am I doing wrong?

cpan> i /Date::Time/
Module id = Date::Time
DESCRIPTION Lightweight normalised datetime data type
CPAN_USERID TOBIX (Tobias Brox <>)
CPAN_VERSION undef
CPAN_FILE Contact Author Tobias Brox <>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
DSLI_STATUS idpO (idea,developer,perl,object-oriented)
^^^^
INST_FILE (not installed)

So, as it said, the module is not available via CPAN.

Ben

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Ben Morrow wrote:
> So, as it said, the module is not available via CPAN.

But it can of course be downloaded from CPAN...

http://search.cpan.org/~tobix/OO-DateTime-0.01/

This is the top of the Time.pm file:

package Date::Time::UnixTime;

# Some methods dealing with Unix timestamps are to be
# implemented here.

1;

package Date::Time;

Maybe that explains the failure to download it using CPAN.pm?

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Ben Morrow wrote:
>> So, as it said, the module is not available via CPAN.
>
> But it can of course be downloaded from CPAN...
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~tobix/OO-DateTime-0.01/

On the other hand, the module does not do anything. When it was
uploaded at 2 March 2000, it was said to be "at the idea/design stage"...

So OP should better find some other module, anyway.

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James Willmore <> wrote in message news:< ia.net>...
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:30:49 -0800, check wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can't find anything similar to this problem in these groups, so I'm
> > hoping someone can help me...
> >
> > I'm trying to install the Date::Time module and it dependencies via
> > CPAN.
> >
> > When I enter:
> >
> > # perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Time'
> >
> > I get the message:
> >
> > The module Date::Time isn't available on CPAN.
> >
> > So, in a CPAN shell I then enter:
> >
> > i /Date::Time/
> >
> > ...and the module is listed correctly. What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > check.
>
> DateTime, instead of Date::Time ... I think

Thanks, you are correct. Got myself in a bit of a muddle about this -
Your help is much appreciated.

check.

>
> --
> Jim
>
> Copyright notice: all code written by the author in this post is
> released under the GPL. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
> for more information.
>
> a fortune quote ...
> Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is
> time to reform. -- Mark Twain