Palm(3) Palm OS utility functions

VERSION

This document describes version 1.400 of Palm, released March 14, 2015 as part of Palm version 1.400.

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

FUNCTIONS

palm2epoch

        my @parts = localtime( palm2epoch($palmtime) );

Converts a Palm OS timestamp to a Unix Epoch time. Note, however, that Palm OS time is in the timezone of the Palm itself while Epoch is defined to be in the GMT timezone. Further conversion may be necessary.

epoch2palm

        my $palmtime = epoch2palm( time() );

Converts Unix epoch time to Palm OS time.

mkpdbname

        $PDB->Write( mkpdbname($PDB->{name}) );

Convert a Palm OS database name to a 7-bit ASCII representation. Native Palm database names can be found in ISO-8859-1 encoding. This encoding isn't going to generate the most portable of filenames and, in particular, ColdSync databases use this representation.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Palm requires no configuration files or environment variables.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

AUTHORS

Andrew Arensburger "<arensb AT ooblick.com>"

Currently maintained by Christopher J. Madsen "<perl AT cjmweb.net>"

Please report any bugs or feature requests to "<bug-Palm AT rt.cpan.org>" or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Palm>.

You can follow or contribute to p5-Palm's development at <https://github.com/madsen/p5-Palm>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2003 by Andrew Arensburger & Alessandro Zummo.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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