NAME Dist::Zilla::Plugin::AutoVersion::Relative - Time-Relative versioning VERSION version 1.000001 SYNOPSIS Like all things, time is relative. This plugin is to allow you to auto-increment versions based on a relative time point. It doesn't do it all for you, you can choose, its mostly like The "AutoVersion" Plugin except there's a few more user-visible entities, and a few more visible options. CONFIGURATION To configure this, you specify the date that the version is to be relative to. Serving Suggestion [AutoVersion::Relative] major = 1 minor = 1 year = 2009 ; when we did our last major rev month = 08 ; " " day = 23 ; " " hour = 05 ; " " minute = 30 ; " " second = 00 ; If you're that picky. time_zone = Pacific/Auckland ; You really want to set this. ; 1.0110012 format = {{$major}}.{{sprintf('%02d%04d%02d', $minor, days, hours }} For the list of tuneables and how to use them, see "ATTRIBUTES" and "DATE ATTRIBUTES" FORMATTING There are a handful of things we inject into the template for you # Just to give you an idea, you don't really want to be using this though. {{ $major }}.{{ $minor }}{{ days }}{{ hours }}{{ $relative->seconds }} See "FORMAT FIELDS" for the available fields and their use. WARNING If you don't specify Y/M/D, it will default to Jan 01, 2000 , because I couldn't think of a more sane default. But you're setting that anyway, because if you don't,you be cargo cultin' the bad way ATTRIBUTES major major = 1 minor minor = 1 format format = {{ sprintf('%d.%02d%04d%02d', $major, $minor, days, hours) }} See "FORMATING" DATE ATTRIBUTES year year = 2000 month month = 1 day day = 1 minute minute = 0 second second = 0 time_zone You want this. Formatting is like, "Pacific/Auckland" , or merely "+1200" format. FORMAT FIELDS $major The value set for major $minor The value set for minor $relative A "DateTime::Duration" object cldr cldr($ARG) CLDR for the current time. See "format_cldr" in DateTime days See "days_accurate" Used to use the algorithm as used in "days_square" but uses the algorithm in "days_accurate" since 0.03000000 days_square An approximation of the number of days passed since milestone. Note that for this approximation, it is assumed all months are 31 days long, and years as such, have 372 days. This is a legacy way of computing dates, superseded by days_accurate since 0.03000000 days_accurate The number of days passed since the milestone. hours The remainder number of hours elapsed. METHODS provide_version returns the formatted version string to satisfy the roles. ATTRIBUTE METHODS has_time_zone <- predicate('time_zone') PRIVATE ATTRIBUTES _release_time _release_time DateTime[ro] _current_time _current_time DateTime[ro] relative relative Duration[ro] PRIVATE BUILDERS _build__release_time _build__current_time _build_relative AUTHOR Kent Fredric COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Kent Fredric. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.