NAME Dist::Zilla::Plugin::AutoVersion::Relative - Time-Relative versioning VERSION version 0.01000119 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 Dist::Zilla::Plugin::AutoVersion except there's a few more user-visible entities, and a few more visible options. 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 }} 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 minor format See "FORMATING" DATE ATTRIBUTES Various Tokens that specify what the relative version is relative to year month day minute second time_zone You want this. Either Olson Format ( "Auckland" , or merely "+1200" format." in Olson::Abbreviations ), "Pacific METHODS provide_version returns the formatted version string to satisfy the roles. 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 }} $major The value set for major $minor The value set for minor $relative A DateTime::Duration object cldr($ARG) CLDR for the current time. See "format_cldr" in DateTime date() 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 purely to make sure numbers don't slip backwards, as its currently too hard to work out the exact number of days passed. Fixes welcome if you want this to respond properly. hours() The remainder number of hours elapsed. AUTHOR Kent Fredric COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2009 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. POD ERRORS Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below: Around line 174: Unterminated L<...> sequence