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NAME
Date::Manip::Changes5 - changes in Date::Manip 5.xx
SYNOPSIS
This describes the changes made to the Date::Manip module in the 5.xx series of releases.
Major changes are marked with asterisks (*).
For the most part, Date::Manip has remained backward compatible at every release, but
occasionally, a change is made which is backward incompatible. These are marked with an
exclamation mark (!).
VERSION 5.xx
As of December 2012, Version 5 of Date::Manip will no longer be modified. It is expected
that version 5.64 will be the final release.
The one exception is that if someone submits a patch that applies cleanly and causes zero
failures in the test suite, I will consider adding it on a case-by-cast bases.
Please use Date::Manip 6.xx instead.
VERSION 5.64 (Released with 6.32)
Better handling of '0000' timezone
Applied a patch supplied by Ed Avis that improves handling of the '0000' timezone..
VERSION 5.63 (Released with 6.26)
Fixed business mode calculation
Applied a patch that I received some time ago to fix a business mode calculation.
Steve Tempest
VERSION 5.62 (Released with 6.21)
No changes
VERSION 5.61 (Released with 6.20)
No changes
VERSION 5.60 (Released with 6.14)
Fully integrated with 6.xx
As of Date::Manip 6.14, the 5.xx release is fully integrated into the distribution.
Both will be installed automatically and you can switch between them (if you have a
recent version of perl). This simplifies the package management process considerably.
The downside is that Date::Manip 6.xx will be installed, even if you do not have a
recent version of perl and cannot use it.
VERSION 5.59 (Released with 6.12)
Test fixes
Fix tests to work better on windows.
VERSION 5.58 (Released with 6.11)
Test fixes
Fixed a bug in some of the tests that were causing two tests to fail. JD
Explicitly set TZ in all tests to avoid some failures (it got left out of a few when
it was bundled with 6.10).
VERSION 5.57 (Released with 6.10)
(*) Combined 5.xx and 6.xx
As of 6.10, Date-Manip-6.xx will contain both the Date::Manip 5.xx and 6.xx modules.
If perl 5.10 or higher is available, the 6.xx version will be installed. For older
versions of perl, the 5.xx version will be installed.
This will allow all of the automatic module tools to work correctly.
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where years earlier than 1000 AD failed in calculations. John
Time zone fixes
Improved time zone detection. Stepan Kasal
Documentation fixes
Minor improvements. Josef Kreulich
VERSION 5.56 (2010-02-24)
Bug fixes
Date_PrevWorkDay and documentation fix. RT #17005
I accidentally included a require 5.10 which made Date::Manip not work with earlier
versions of perl. Nicholas Riley
VERSION 5.55 (2010-02-22)
(*) Added time zone abbreviations
Date::Manip 5.xx now includes all of the time zone abbreviations from version 6.xx
(i.e. all of the abbreviations from the Olsen database).
Documentation fixes
Typo fix. ddascalescu
VERSION 5.54 (2008-05-09)
Released
VERSION 5.53 (DEVELOPMENT)
Bug fixes
Fix so it won't fail with "Too early to specify a build action"
CPANTS changes
Final changes to meet requirements on http://cpants.perl.org/
VERSION 5.52 (2008-05-08)
Released
VERSION 5.51 (DEVELOPMENT)
Bug fixes
Fixed bug where the wrong version was in Build.PL
CPANTS changes
Additional changes to meet requirements on http://cpants.perl.org/
VERSION 5.50 (2008-05-05)
Released
VERSION 5.49 (DEVELOPMENT)
New features
Added "ereyesterday". Ed Avis
Time zone fixes
Added time zones. Damyan Ivanov, Ernesto Hernandez-Novich, Gregor Herrmann, Nicholas
Riley, Enrique Verdes, Alexander Litvinov
Documentation fixes
Corrected typo in %G and %L format descriptions. Troy A. Bollinger
CPANTS changes
Added Build.PL and several other things to meet requirements on
http://cpants.perl.org/
VERSION 5.48 (2007-11-27)
Released
VERSION 5.47 (DEVELOPMENT)
Bug fixes
Fixed the version number. John R. Daily
Fixed a warning when the date command not present. Daniel Hahler
Fixed a bug where recurrences of the form 0:1*, 0:0:1*, etc., incorrectly required a
base date. Gerry Lawrence
Fixed a bug where "substring" was used instead of "substr".
Time zone fixes
Fixed a problem in the WEST time zone. Cristina Nunes
Added time zone. Kimmo R. M. Hovi
Documentation fixes
Revised some of the documentation about Y2K (given that it's in the past) and the 2007
US daylight saving time rule changes.
VERSION 5.46 (2007-02-21)
Released
VERSION 5.45 (DEVELOPMENT)
New features
Added "overmorrow". Ed Avis
Bug fixes
Fixed bug in parsing ISO 8601 dates. Paul Schinder
Fixed a bug in UnixDate for years before 1000 AD. Joaquin Ferrero
Fixed a bug where "today" wasn't case insensitive. Pedro Rodrigues
Fixed a bug where business/approximate mode wasn't correctly used in DateCalc. Mark
T. Kennedy
Bug in DateCalc where you couldn't pass undef as the errref. Alex Howansky
Bug where cygwin wasn't using the date command. Rafael Kitover
Time zone fixes
New time zones. Khairil Yusof, Andy Spiegel, Ernesto Rapetti
New time zones. Robin Norwood
Fixed Russian time zones. Yuri Kovalenko
Language fixes
Language fix for Danish. Claus Rasmussen
Language fix for German. Andreas Dembach
Documentation fixes
Minor documentation improvement. Caminati Carlo
Lots of spelling fixes. Asaf Bartov
VERSION 5.44 (2005-06-02)
Released
VERSION 5.43 (DEVELOPMENT)
(!) (*) Recurrences revisited
The behavior of some elements of recurrences changed. These included making the week
element (N) refer to the Nth occurrence of a day of the week in the week, month, or
year. It is now possible to look at the 3rd Friday of every month for example.
Y-0-WOY-DOW now refers to the WOY'th occurence of DOW instead of the ISO 8601 date
Y-W(WOY)-DOY. Also, changed Y-0-WOY-0 to refer to the WOY'th occurence of FirstDay,
and got rid of the MW and MD flags. Many other similar changes.
(!) Changed %x format in UnixDate
The %x format used to be equivalent to %D (%m/%d/%y), but it has been modified to use
the DateFormat config variable, so it may return %d/%m/%y if a non-US DateFormat is
specified.
New features
Added TodayIsMidnight. Reuben Thomas
Added "approx" mode to Delta_Format and reversed change to default Delta_Format
behavior to the one from version 5.40. Based on discussion with Adam Spiers.
Added %O UnixDate format. Martin Thurn
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug is ParseRecur where values passed in were no overriding old values in the
recurrence. Scott Barker (reported to the Debian bugs list).
Fix for a potential problem in the "0000" time zone. Ed Avis
Changed taint check to be the one in persec(1). Max Kalika
Minor fix so DateInit("VAR=") will work. Thomas Bohme
Fixed a bug where business mode was kept operative even after the calculation was
over. Emiliano Bruni
Minor change to run under cygwin. Niel Markwick
Minor VMS fix. Martin P.J. Zinser
Small fix to taint checking. David Worenklein
Fixed a problem where deltas were getting misinterpreted as dates.
Harry Zhu
Fixed a bug in ParseRecur where "last day of every March" couldn't be done. Andras
Karacsony
Fixed a bug in business mode calculations. Tracy L Sanders
Sorted all events and dates returned by Events_List. This fixes problems with tests
on some versions of perl. Tulan
Modified %x UnixDate format to use DateFormat config variable. Matt Lyons
Time zone fixes
Fixed a problem with single character military time zones (T and W) conflicting with
ISO 8601 T and W dates. Hugo Cornelis
Small correction to Brazil time zones. John McDonald
Added time zones. Michael Wood-Vasey, Don Robertson, Michael D. Setzer II, Andres
Tarallo
Language fixes
Fixed German translations. Oliver Scheit
Minor corrections to Italian. Nicola Pedrozzi
Added the language Catalan. Xavi Drudis
Documentation fixes
Minor doc fixes Reuben Thomas, Ed Avis, Thomas Winzig
Clarified documentation on %W/%G/%U/%L formats. Joel Savignon
VERSION 5.42a 2003-07-03
Test fixes
A quick fix to replace a faulty test.
VERSION 5.42 (2003-07-02)
Released
Number changed to distinguish between the development release (5.41) and the official
release.
VERSION 5.41 (DEVELOPMENT)
As of 5.41, odd numbered releases are development (and appear only on my page). Even
number releases are official releases submitted to CPAN.
(!) Changed path separator for VMS
Since ":" is used in some VMS paths, it should not have been used as the path
separator. It has been changed to a newline ("\n") character.
(!) Delta_Format behavior changed
The entire delta is exact if no month component is present (previously, no year or
month component could be present). Due to discussion with Tim Turner.
Bug fixes
Small patch for OpenVMS. Martin P.J. Zinser
Minor enhancement to ParseRecur. Randy Harmon
Fixed a bug involving business deltas with negative hours. Ludovic Dubost
Added some support for NetWare. Chris Shields
Applied some robustness patches. Ed Avis
Fixed a bug with years <1000. Jonathan Callahan
Patch to make Manip.pm -Mstrict clean and better VMS support. Peter Prymmer
Fixed a bug in "1st Saturday of 2005" format. Maurice Aubrey
Taint check insecure $ENV{PATH} fix. Ed Avis
Patch to allow deltas of the form "+ -1 day" to work. Ed Avis
Removed ampersands from function calls in documentation to fit new perl coding
standards. Bill Pollock
Fixed a bug where spaces in a date caused problems in German (due to the number 1st,
2nd, etc. being 1., 2., etc.). Erik Roderwald
Time zone fixes
Minor bug fix where /etc/time zone not correctly read. Jacek Nowacki
Made the UnixDate %Z format work with numeric time zones. Michael Isard
Fixed bug where -HH:MM and +HH:MM were not being accepted as valid time zones. Hank
Barta
Fixed a bug where time zones -HH:MM weren't handled in ISO 8601 dates. Ed Avis
Added some help for VMS time zones. Don Slutz
Added some checking to the time zone determination. Ed Avis
Added time zones. David Coppit, Daniel Serodio, Fabian Mandelbaum, Raul Dias, Pedro
Melo CUNHA, Roman Y Malakhov, David Whiting, Khaled Mostaguir, Jason King
Language fixes
(*) Replaced all non-ASCII characters with hex representations to avoid the malformed
UTF-8 character warnings. Ed Avis
Added Russian translation. Dapi
Additions to Dutch translation. Willem
Patch to French support. Patrick Turmel
Added Tues/Thur abbreviations. Martin Thurn
Added Turkish. Giray
Added Danish. Jesper Dalberg
A patch for Danish was send by Jorgen Norgaard previously, and
I somehow overlooked it. I apologize for that.
Test fixes
Added runtests.bat contributed by Lon Amick
Documentation fixes
Minor doc fix. Jeremy Tietsort
Fixed spelling of Veteran's day. Dirk Eddelbuettel
Documentation improvements. James Olsen
VERSION 5.40 (2001-06-07)
New features
Added support for negative values is "epoch SECS" type dates. Larry Warner
Added NWD/PWD/DWD flags to ParseRecur. Peter Wyngaard
Bug fixes
Fixed a warning. Edward Avis
Fixed a bug where the date wasn't rolling over when parsing dates containing only
times. James L. Gordon
Fixed a bug where some times were defaulting to the current time instead of 00:00:00.
Edward Avis
Fixed a bug in Date_NthDayOfYear with decimal days. Olga Polyakov
Fixed a bug where ParseDateDelta returned a delta if nothing was passed in. Jim
Hranicky
Fixed a bug where noon was case sensitive. Bion Pohl
Fixed a bug where dateTtime wasn't parsed. Jeremy Brinkley
Fixed a bug in holiday parsing involving recurrences. Jerry Wilcox
Fixed a bug where an invalid date passed to Date_IsWorkDay produced an error message.
Mark Rejhon
Fixed a bug where EraseHolidays wasn't taking affect correctly. Chateauvieux Martial
Fixed a bug where the list produced by Date_Init couldn't be passed back in to
Date_Init. James Elson
Time zone fixes
Added `date +%Z` support in Date_TimeZone. Mike Bristow
Fixed a warning if the time zone is supplied as a +HHMM format. Viola Mauro
Fixed South African time zone. David Sieborger
Documentation fixes
Added an example. Philip Jones
VERSION 5.39 (2000-06-27)
Bug fixes
`date` uses the user's path unless taint checking is on.
@::DatePath used instead of @Date::Manip::DatePath incorrectly. Fixed by John
Labovitz.
Fixed a bug where times such as "5 seconds ago" were not changing over time. Matthew
R. Sheahan
Time zone fixes
Added /etc/time zone support to &Date_TimeZone. Dirk Eddelbuettel
Added time zones. Dirk Eddelbuettel, Eli Selinger
VERSION 5.38 (2000-05-23)
(*) Added Events
Added Events section to config file and Events_List routine. Prompted by Greg
Schiedler and paid for by Alan Cezar.
(!) Removed Date_DaysSince999
The Date_DaysSince999 function (deprecated in 5.35) has been removed.
New features
Added support for ISO8601 dates of the format dateTtime. Jason Pierce
Got rid of the "use Cwd" and ENV{PATH} lines which means no more taint problems.
Bug fixes
Fixed "dofw" format to return the day of the current week as documented instead of
next week. Dennis Ingram
Fixed a bug where dates in years 1900, 1800, etc. (but not 2000 or other 400th years)
were off by one day in DayOfWeek. Noble Thomas
Fixed a bug in ParseRecur (2-digit years not treated correctly). Brian Rectanus
Time zone fixes
Added time zones. Nelson Ferreira, David Harper
Documentation fixes
Fixed some typos. Thanks to Alex Kapranoff
Typo fixed. Jim Hranicky
VERSION 5.37 (2000-02-14)
Bug fixes
Set ENV{PATH} to help with taint checking. Joe Lipson
Fixed a serious bug where HH:24:00 was broken due to support from 24:00:00. Scott
Egashira
Time zone fixes
Fixed the sign on the military time zones. John Scott
VERSION 5.36 (2000-01-21)
New features
Added support for 24:00:00 to ParseDate. William H Asquith
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug in ParseRecur. Lewis Tsao
Fixed a bug is UnixDate (%l format). Jon Hedley
Fixed a bug in Date_GetNext/Prev. Christoph Haas
Fixed a bug in Date_IsHoliday. Report and patch by Rolf Beutner
Fixed a bug in UnixDate. Patch by Kurtis D. Rader
Rewrote IsInt routine based on discussion with Sean Hunter (approximately 30% faster
on a SPARC).
Time zone fixes
Added time zone. Paul Arzul
Documentation fixes
Fixed a documentation problem with Date_ConvTZ. Diab Jerius
VERSION 5.35 (1999-07-06)
(!) Deprecated Date_DaysSince999
In fixing support for the years 0001-0999, I rewrote Date_DaysSince999 to be
Date_DaysSince1BC. The Date_DaysSince999 function will be removed.
(*) (!) Added PathSep variable
In order to better support Win32 platforms, I added the PathSep config variable. This
will allow the use of paths such as "c:\date" on Win32 platforms. Old config files on
Win32 platforms (which were not working correctly in many cases) may not work if they
contain path information to the personal config file.
(*) Recurrences now support flags
Flags for modifying recurrence dates are now supported.
(*) Improved holiday support considerably
Added support for recurrences and one-year-only holidays (the latter requested first
by Vishal Bhatia.
(*) Date_Init improved
Date_Init can now return a list of config variables if called in array context. Based
on a suggestion by Matt Tuttle.
New features
Modified Date_GetPrev/Date_GetNext to take $curr=2.
Now parses the Apache log file format "dd/mmm/yyyy:hh:mm:ss (time zone)". Mark
Ferguson
Added OS/2 support. Michael B. Babakov
Added Date_IsHoliday routine. Joe Pepin
Added recurrence support for Easter (first suggested by Abigail).
Bug fixes
Made "epoch" not case sensitive and fixed a bug where it would fail in some languages.
Caught because of Iosif's thorough Romanian test file.
Fixed a problem where "in 5 days/weeks/months" sometimes wouldn't get correctly parsed
in other languages. Caught because of Iosif's thorough Romanian test file.
Fixed a weakness in ParseDateDelta brought out by the Romanian delta test file.
Fixed a bug causing warnings in the beta version of perl. Patch by Paul Johnson.
Fixed support for years 0000-0999. Requested by Chris Vaughan
Several recurrence bug fixes.
Put all the my'ed global variables in a couple hashes to clean up the namespace and to
make a few future enhancements easier to do.
Fixed a bug where business weeks weren't being used correctly. Qian Miao
Fixed a serious typo in the DaysSince1BC routine. Qian Miao
Fixed Veteran's day, added Good Friday (off by default). Peter Chen
Cleaned up holiday variables and re-did holiday routines.
Time zone fixes
Added time zones. Oded Cohen
Language fixes
Added Romanian support (including 2 test files). Iosif Fettich
Corrected Swedish translations. Danne Solli
Some fixes to German translations. Peter Ehrenberg
Added Italian. Nicola Pedrozzi
Test fixes
Added recurrence test suite
Documentation fixes
Several documentation updates.
New recurrence documentation.
VERSION 5.34 (1999-04-13)
(!) (*) All Date::Manip variables are no longer accessible
Previously, Date::Manip variables were declared using a full package name. Now, they
are declared with the my() function. This means that internal variables are no longer
accessible outside of the module. Based on suggestion by Tom Christiansen
(!) Week interpretation in business mode deltas
A business mode delta containing a week value used to be treated as 7 days. A much
more likely interpretation of a week is Monday to Monday, regardless of holidays, so
this is now the behavior.
(!) %z UnixDate format
The %z UnixDate format used to return the time zone abbreviation. It now returns it
as a GMT offset (i.e. -0500). %Z still returns the time zone abbreviation. Suggested
by Tuc.
(!) Formats "22nd Sunday" returns the intuitive value
The date "22nd Sunday" used to return the Sunday of the 22nd week of the year (which
could be the 21st, 22nd, or 23rd Sunday of the year depending on how weeks were
defined). Now, it returns the 22nd Sunday of the year regardless.
(!) Separator in DD/YYmmm and mmmDD/YY formats no longer optional
Previously, the date "Dec1065" would return Dec 10, 1965. After adding the YYYYmmm
and mmmYYYY formats, this was no longer possible. The separator between DD and YY is
no longer optional, so
Dec1065 returns December 1, 1065
Dec10/65 returns December 10, 1965
(*) Date_Cmp added
In one of the next versions of Date::Manip, the internal format of the date will
change to include time zone information. All date comparisons should be made using
Date_Cmp (which currently does nothing more than call the Perl "cmp" command, but
which will important when comparing dates that include the time zone).
Added now in response to a question by Al Sorrell (I should have added it earlier).
New features
Added exact business mode. Ian Duplisse
Added "mmmYYYY" and "YYYYmmm" formats. As a result, "DDYYmmm" and "mmmDDYY" formats
changed to "DD/YYmmm" and "mmmDD/YY" as described above. David Twomey
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where a date passed in as an array wasn't getting the date removed from
the array. Rick Wise
Added tests for MPE/iX OS. John Testa
Fixed a bug where WorkDayBeg=8:00 went into an infinite loop. Mark Martinec
Changed a business week to be the same as an exact week. Abigail
Fixed a bug where "Sunday week 0" didn't work (only affected week 0) Gerald Rinske
Minor bug (my variable declared twice). Paul J. Schinder
Fixed a bug where "epoch SECONDS" was getting parsed wrong (for SECONDS which could be
interpreted as an ISO-8601 date). N. Thomas
Fixed a problem where init files were not being read. Mike Reetz
Time zone fixes
At the request of the UN, I added the SAT time zone. :-) Howard Hendler
Fixed a bug where time zones were converted multiple times if ConvTZ was set and
DateCalc called. Steven Hartland
Language fixes
Added Portuguese. Rui Pedro da Silva Leite Pereira
Documentation fixes
A number of typos fixed. Ron Pero
VERSION 5.33 (1998-08-20)
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where "1 month ago" was no longer working (and added it to the test
cases). This broke when I fixed the "-1second" bug in the previous version. A result
of this is that a number of "deltas" can be parsed as dates (i.e. &ParseDate("1 hour
20 minutes ago") is equivalent to &DateCalc("now","1 hour 20 minutes ago")). Only
text deltas can be used in this way (i.e. &ParseDate("-0:0:0:0:1:20:0") will not
work).
Language fixes
Added Spanish support. Bautista Jasso Javier
VERSION 5.32 (1998-08-17)
(!) Date_Init arguments
The old style Date_Init arguments that were deprecated in version 5.07 have been
removed.
(!) (*) DateManip.cnf change
Changed .DateManip.cnf to Manip.cnf (to get rid of problems on OS's that insist on 8.3
filenames) for all non-Unix platforms (Windows, VMS, Mac). For all Unix platforms,
it's still .DateManip.cnf . It will only look in the user's home directory on VMS and
Unix.
New features
Added "in N days" and "N days ago" formats. Tony Bowden.
Added cYYYY format to YYtoYYYY variable. Mark Rejhon.
Added 2 days/weeks/months later in both ParseDate and ParseDelta (for Dutch support).
Abigail.
Added "Y:M:0*-DOM:0:0:0" to ParseRecur. Jeff Yoak.
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where the deltas could be off by up to a couple minutes in some rare
cases. Herman Horsten.
Fixed an "uninitialized symbol" warning. Mark D. Anderson.
Fixed a bug where holidays weren't erased. Jonathan Wright.
Applied a bug fix from Joe Chapman where the %W/%U UnixDate formats were frequently
wrong.
Several minor fixes and improvements. Abigail.
Added some VMS support. Charles Lane.
Fixed a bug which caused a test to fail on some systems. Charles Lane.
Fixed a bug where "-1second" was treated as a date rather than a delta in DateCalc.
Kenneth Ingham
Added a bit to the Makefile.PL (as it was distributed in the Win32 Perl Resource Kit).
Murray Nesbitt
Time zone fixes
Allowed time zones of the format STD-#DST-#. Peter Gordon.
Added time zone support for "+0500 (EST)". Tom Christiansen.
Restricted time zones parsing to 0000-2359 instead of 0000-9999. Frank Cusack
Added time zones. W. Phillip Moore, Michael Smith, Samuli Karkkainen
Language fixes
Added Polish support. Ian Wojtowicz.
Added Dutch support. Abigail.
Added A.M. and P.M. parsing (not just AM and PM). William W. Arnold.
Fixed a German initialization problem. Thomas Horster-Moller and Christian Reithmaier
Documentation fixes
Documentation fix. Peter Gordon.
Minor documentation changes. Yamamoto Hiroshi.
Added info about the RCS problem. Supplied by Kipp E. Howard.
VERSION 5.31 (1998-04-08)
New features
Added "epoch SECS" format to ParseDateString. Thanks to: Joshua M. Burgin.
Added a patch by Blair Zajac to make Date_NthDayOfYear work with decimal days.
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug in ParseDateDelta (seems to appear only in 5.005 pre-releases). Found by
Larry W. Virden.
Missed one form in ParseDate. Noted by Tuc.
Fixed a bug where "15:00:00" couldn't be parsed. Michael Pizolato.
Split Manip.pm. New files are HISTORY, TODO, Manip.pod.
Fixed a bug in ParseDateDelta. Antonio Rosella.
Removed the only occurence of $& (which may speed some things up). Fix by Ken
Williams. First suggested by Abigail.
Fixed an overflow bug in doing date calculations with 2 dates more than 70 years
apart. Fix by Vishal Bhatia.
Fixed a bug where "5:00pm" wasn't always parsed correctly. Thanks to Jim Trocki.
Fixed a bug in UnixDate (it wouldn't return the correct string for a format who's last
character was '0') noted by Ramin V.
Time zone fixes
Relaxed some restrictions on time zones so ISO-8601 dates can use non-ISO-8601 time
zones. Noted by John Chambers.
Fixed a bug in converting time zones with a minutes field (+1030). Found by Paul O.
Language fixes
Some fixes to the French translations by Emmanuel Bataille.
Added German support. Thanks to Andreas C. Poszvek.
Documentation fixes
Minor documentation fixes. Will Linden.
Fixed a documentation problem with Date_GetPrev. It was still 0-6 instead of 1-7.
Thanks to Robert Klep.
VERSION 5.30 (1998-01-21)
(!) (*) Delta format changed
A week field has been added to the internal format of the delta. It now reads
"Y:M:W:D:H:MN:S" instead of "Y:M:D:H:MN:S".
(*) Now handles recurring events
Added ParseRecur. First suggested by Chris Jackson.
New features
All routines can now take either a 2- or 4-digit year.
Added Delta_Format. First suggested by Alan Burlison.
Added Date_SetDateField. Thanks to Martin Thurn.
Bug fixes
Made the $err argument to DateCalc optional.
Changed the name of several of the library routines (not the callable ones) to
standardize naming.
VERSION 5.21 (1998-01-15)
(!) Long running processes may give incorrect time zone
A process that runs during a time zone change (Daylight Saving Time specifically) may
report the wrong time zone. See the UpdateCurrTZ variable for more information.
(!) UnixDate "%J", "%W", and "%U" formats fixed
The %J, %W, and %U will no longer report a week 0 or a week 53 if it should really be
week 1 of the following year. They now report the correct week number according to
ISO 8601.
New features
Added YYtoYYYY variable. Suggested by Michel van der List.
Added the UpdateCurrTZ variable to increase speed at the cost of being wrong on the
time zone.
Added British date formats. Thanks to Piran Montford.
Monday week
today week
as well as some US formats
in 2 months
next month
Time can now be written 5pm. Piran Montford.
Added the TomorrowFirst variable and Date_NearestWorkDay function.
Added UnixDate formats %G and %L to correctly handle the year. Thanks to Samuli
Karkkainen.
Added ForceDate variable. Based on a suggestion by Christian Campbell.
Bug fixes
Now passes Taint checks. Thanks to Mike Fuhr, Ron E. Nelson, and Jason L Tibbitts
III.
Put everything in a "use integer" pragma.
Added a missing space in the %g UnixDate format. Thanks to Mike Booth.
Removed all mandatory call to Date_Init (only called when current time is required).
Significantly faster.
Fixed a bug in Date_ConvTZ. Thanks to Patrick K Malone.
Fixed a bug in Date_IsWorkDay.
Time zone fixes
Fixed some Australian time zones. Kim Davies.
Language fixes
Cleaned up multi-lingual initialization and added the IntCharSet variable.
Improved French translations. Thanks to Emmanuel Bataille.
Added "Sept" as a recognized abbreviation. Thanks to Martin Thurn.
Typo in the French initialization. Thanks to Michel Minsoul.
Test fixes
Fixed the tests to not fail in 1998.
Documentation fixes
Documented how to get around Micro$oft problem. Based on a mail by Patrick Stepp.
VERSION 5.20 (1997-10-12)
(*) ISO 8601 support
ISO 8601 dates are now parsed. This resulted in several other changes specified below.
(!) (*) ParseDate formats removed
As a result of ISO 8601 support, some formats which previously worked may no longer be
parsed since they conflict with an ISO 8601 format. These include MM-DD-YY (conflicts
with YY-MM-DD) and YYMMDD (conflicts with YYYYMM). MM/DD/YY still works, so the first
form can be kept easily by changing "-" to "/". YYMMDD can be changed to YY-MM-DD
before being parsed. Whenever parsing dates using dashes as separators, they will be
treated as ISO 8601 dates. You can get around this by converting all dashes to
slashes.
(!) (*) Week day numbering
The day numbering was changed from 0-6 (Sun-Sat) to 1-7 (Mon-Sun) to be ISO 8601
compatible. Weeks start on Monday (though this can be overridden using the FirstDay
config variable) and the 1st week of the year contains Jan 4 (though it can be forced
to contain Jan 1 with the Jan1Week1 config variable).
New features
Several new parsing formats added, including:
"Friday" suggested by Rob Perelman
"12th" suggested by Rob Perelman
"last day of MONTH" suggested by Chadd Westhoff
Added ParseDateString for speed (and simplicity for modifying ParseDate)
Added %J and %K formats to UnixDate.
Added Date_DaysInMonth.
Bug fixes
Reorganized ParseDate more efficiently.
Fixed some incorrect uses of $in instead of $future in ParseDate. Thanks to Erik
Corry.
Added some speedups (more to come).
Test fixes
Cleaned up testing mechanism a bit and added tests for ISO 8601 formats.
VERSION 5.11 (1997-08-07)
Version 5.11 was never released to CPAN.
Bug fixes
Added one more check for NT perl. Thanks to Rodney Haywood.
Added some comments to help me keep my personal libraries up-to-date with respect to
Date::Manip and vice-versa.
Fixed a bug which showed up in French dates (though it could happen in other languages
as well). Thanks to Georges Martin.
Fixed a bug in DateCalc. Thanks to Thomas Winzig.
Removed the "eval" statement from CheckFilePath which causes a suid c wrapper program
to die when it calls a Date::Manip script. Thanks to Hank Hughes.
Fixed a bug in business mode calculations. Thanks to Sterling Swartwout.
Fixed a bug in which "1997023100:00:00" was accepted as valid. Thanks to Doug
Emerald.
Fixed a bug in which ConvTZ was not used correctly in ParseDate. Re-did portions of
Date_ConvTZ. Thanks to Vivek Khera.
Fixed a bug in business mode calculations. Thanks to Ian Duplisse.
Added $^X check for Win95 perl. Thanks to Walter Soldierer.
Missed one call to NormalizeDelta so the output was wrong. Thanks to Brad A. Buikema.
Time zone fixes
Added time zones. Paul Gillingwater, Rosella Antonio, Kang Taewook
VERSION 5.10 (1997-03-19)
Bug fixes
Cleaned up In, At, and On regexps.
Added 2 checks for MSWin32 (date command and getpw* didn't work). Thanks to Alan
Humphrey.
Fixed two bugs in the DateCalc routines. Pointed out by Kevin Baker.
Added a check for Windows_95. Thanks to Charlie W.
Cleaned up checks for MacOS and Microsoft OS's. Hopefully I'm catching everything.
Thanks to Charlie Wu for one more check.
Fixed a typo which broke Time%Date (Date=dd%mmm%yy) format. Thanks to Timothy
Kimball.
Time zone fixes
Fixed some problems with how "US/Eastern" type time zones were used. Thanks to Marvin
Solomon.
Test fixes
Tests will now run regardless of the time zone you are in.
Test will always read the DateManip.cnf file in t/ now.
A failed test will now give slightly more information.
DateManip.cnf file in t/ now sets ALL options to override any changes made in the
Manip.pm file.
Documentation fixes
Added documentation for backwards incompatibilities to POD.
Fixed some problems in POD documentation. Thanks to Marvin Solomon.
Fixed minor POD error pointed out by John Perkins.
Changed documentation for Date_IsWorkDay (it was quite confusing using a variable
named $time). Thanks to Erik M. Schwartz.
Fixed typo in documentation (midnight misspelled). Thanks to Timothy Kimball.
VERSION 5.09 (1997-01-28)
Bug fixes
Upgraded to 5.003_23 and fixed one problem associated with it.
Used carp and changed all die's to confess.
Replaced some UNIX commands with perl equivalents (date with localtime in the tests,
pwd with cwd in the path routines).
Cleaned up all routines working with the path.
Test fixes
Tests work again (broke in 5.08). Thanks to Alex Lewin and Michael Fuhr for running
debugging tests.
VERSION 5.08 (1997-01-24)
Bug fixes
(*) Fixed serious bug in ConvTZ pointed out by David Hall.
(*) Modified Date_ConvTZ (and documented it).
VERSION 5.07p2 1997-01-03
Released two patches for 5.07.
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where a delta component of "-0" would mess things up. Reported by Nigel
Chapman.
Time zone fixes
(*) Can now understand PST8PDT type zones (but only in Date_TimeZone).
Added lots of time zone abbreviations.
Test fixes
Fixed some tests (good for another year).
VERSION 5.07 (1996-12-10)
(!) UnixDate "%s" format
Used to return the number of seconds since 1/1/1970 in the current time zone. It now
returns the number of seconds since 1/1/1970 GMT. The "%o" format was added which
returns what "%s" previously did.
(!) (*) Internal format of delta
The format for the deltas returned by ParseDateDelta changed. Previously, each
element of a delta had a sign attached to it (+1:+2:+3:+4:+5:+6). The new format
removes all unnecessary signs by default (+1:2:3:4:5:6). Also, because of the way
deltas are normalized (see documentation on ParseDateDelta), at most two signs are
included. For backwards compatibility, the config variable DeltaSigns was added. If
set to 1, all deltas include all 6 signs.
(!) (*) Date_Init arguments
The format of the Date_Init calling arguments changed. The old method
Date_Init($language,$format,$tz,$convtz);
is still supported , but this support will likely disappear in the future. Use the
new calling format instead:
Date_Init("var=val","var=val",...);
NOTE: The old format is no longer supported as of version 5.32 .
(*) Added weeks to ParseDateDelta.
Suggested by Mike Bassman. Note that since this is a late addition, I did not change
the internal format of a delta. Instead, it is added to the days field.
(*) Now reads a config file.
Refer to the Date_Init documentation for details.
(*) Added business mode.
See documentation. Suggested by Mike Bassman.
New features
(*) Modified how deltas are normalized and added the DeltaSigns config variable.
Added %q format "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS" to UnixDate. Requested by Rob Perelman. Also added
%P format "YYYYMMDDHH:MM:SS".
Added a new config variable to allow you to work with multiple internal formats (with
and without colons). Requested by Rob Perelman. See Date_Init documentation.
Added the following formats suggested by Andreas Johansson:
Sunday week 22 [in 1996] [at 12:00]
22nd Sunday [in 1996] [at 12:00]
Sunday 22nd week [in 1996] [at 12:00]
Added a new config variable to allow you to define the first day of the week. See
Date_Init documentation.
Added the following formats to ParseDate for convenience (some were suggested by Mike
Bassman):
next/last Friday [at time]
next/last week [at time]
in 2 weeks [at time]
2 weeks ago [at time]
Friday in 2 weeks
in 2 weeks on Friday
Friday 2 weeks ago
2 weeks ago Friday
Added Date_SecsSince1970GMT, moved the %s format to %o (secs since 1/1/70) and added
%s format (secs since 1/1/70 GMT). Based on suggestions by Mark Osbourne. Note this
introduces a minor backward incompatibility described above.
Date_SetTime now works with international time separators.
Added the %g format (%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z) for an RFC 1123 date. Suggested by Are
Bryne.
Added options to delete existing holidays and ignore global config file.
Date_GetNext and Date_GetPrev now return the next/prev occurence of a time as well as
a day. Suggested by Are Bryne.
In approximate mode, deltas now come out completely normalized (only 1 sign).
Suggested by Rob Perelman.
Added Date::Manip::InitDone so initialization isn't duplicated.
Added a 3rd internal format to store YYYY-MM-DD HH:MN:SS (iso 8601).
Added a config variable to allow you to work with 24 hour business days. Suggested by
Mike Bassman.
ParseDateDelta now returns "" rather than "+0:0:0:0:0:0" when there is an error.
Bug fixes
(*) The d:h:mn:s of ALL deltas are normalized.
Huge number of code changes to clean things up.
Subroutines now check to see if 4 digit years are entered. Suggested by Are Bryne.
Added local($_) to all routines which use $_. Suggested by Rob Perelman.
Complete rewrite of DateCalc.
Fixed a bug where UnixDate %E format didn't work with single digit dates. Patch
supplied by Jyrgen Nyrgaard.
Fixed a bug where "today" was not converted to the correct time zone.
Time zone fixes
Fixed bug in Date_TimeZone where it didn't recognize +HHMN type time zones. Thanks to
Are Bryne.
Added WindowsNT check to Date_TimeZone to get around NT's weird date command. Thanks
to Are Bryne.
Fixed typo (CSD instead of CST).
Fixed sign in military time zones making Date::Manip RFC 1123 compliant (except that
time zone information is not stored in any format)
Test fixes
(*) Added test suite!
VERSION 5.06 (1996-10-25)
New features
Added "today at time" formats.
ParseDateDelta now normalizes the delta as well as DateCalc.
Added %Q format "YYYYMMDD" to UnixDate. Requested by Rob Perelman.
Bug fixes
Fixed another two places where a variable was declared twice using my (thanks to Ric
Steinberger).
Fixed a bug where fractional seconds weren't parsed correctly.
Fixed a bug where "noon" and other special times were not parsed in the "which day of
month" formats.
Fixed a minor bug where a few matches were case sensitive.
The command "date +%Z" doesn't work on SunOS machines (and perhaps others) so 5.05 is
effectively broken. 5.06 released to fix this. Reported by Rob Perelman.
VERSION 5.05 (1996-10-11)
New features
Changed deltas to be all positive or all negative when produced by DateCalc.
Suggested by Steve Braun
Added DateManipVersion routine.
(*) Parses RFC 822 dates (thanks to J.B. Nicholson-Owens for suggestion).
Parses ctime() date formats (suggested by Matthew R. Sheahan).
Now supports times like "noon" and "midnight".
Bug fixes
Fixed bug introduced in 5.04 when default day set to 1. When no date given, have day
default to today rather than 1. It only defaults to one if a partial date is given.
Fixed bug where Date_DaysSince999 returned the wrong value (the error did not affect
any other functions in Date::Manip due to the way it was called and the nature of the
error). Pointed out by Jason Baker
Dates with commas in them are now read properly.
Fixed two places where a variable was declared twice using my (thanks to Ric
Steinberger).
Hopefully fixed installation problems.
Got rid of the last (I think) couple of US specific strings.
Fixed bug in Date_SetTime (didn't work with $hr,$min,$sec < 10).
Added ModuloAddition routine and simplified DateCalc.
Time zone fixes
(*) Now supports time zones.
(*) Added Date_ConvTZ routine for time zone support.
Date_TimeZone will now also check `date '+%Z'` suggested by Aharon Schkolnik.
Language fixes
Added Swedish translation (thanks to Andreas Johansson
The time separators are now language specific so the French can write "10h30" and the
Swedes can write "10.30". Suggested by Andreas Johansson.
Documentation fixes
Fixed bad mistake in documentation (use Date::Manip instead of use DateManip) pointed
out by tuc@valhalla.stormking.com
Minor improvements to documentation.
Documented the 'sort within a sort' bug.
Fixed type in documentation/README pointed out by James K. Bence.
VERSION 5.04 (1996-08-01)
New features
Added support for fractional seconds (as generated by Sybase). They are parsed and
ignored. Added by Kurt Stephens
Bug fixes
Fixed bugs reported by J.B. Nicholson-Owens
"Tue Jun 25 1996" wasn't parsed correctly (regexp was case
sensitive)
full day names not parsed correctly
the default day in ErrorCheck should be 1, NOT currd since when
currd>28, it may not be a valid date for the month
VERSION 5.03 (1996-07-17)
Bug fixes
Fixed a couple of bugs in UnixDate.
Declared package variables to avoid warning "Identifier XXX used only once". Thanks
to Peter Bray for the suggestion.
VERSION 5.02 (1996-07-15)
New features
(*) Added some internationalization (most of the routines had to be modified at least
slightly)
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where repeated calls to ParseDate("today") was not reset
Replaced the %Date::Manip::Date variable with a large number of other, more flexible
variables
Rewrote the Init routine
VERSION 5.01 (1996-06-24)
New features
Added %F format to UnixDate. Rob Perelman
Added "Date at Time" types
Weekdays can be entered and checked
Two digit years fall in the range CurrYear-89 to CurrYear+10
Bug fixes
Reworked a number of the ParseDate regular expressions to make them more flexible
Documentation fixes
Fixed a typo (Friday misspelled Fridat). Rob Perelman
Documentation problem for \$err in DateCalc. Rob Perelman
VERSION 5.00 (1996-06-21)
(*) Switched to a package.
Patch supplied by Peter Bray:
renamed to Date::Manip
changed version number to 2 decimal places
added POD documentation
Thanks to Peter Bray, Randal Schwartz, Andreas Koenig for suggestions
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug pointed out by Peter Bray where it was complaining of an uninitialized
variable.
VERSION 4.3 (1995-10-26)
New features
Added "which dofw in mmm" formats to ParseDate. Mark Dedlow
Bug fixes
Added a bugfix of Adam Nevins where "12:xx pm" used to be parsed "24:xx:00".
VERSION 4.2 (1995-10-23)
New features
UnixDate will now return a scalar or list depending on context
ParseDate/ParseDateDelta will now take a scalar, a reference to a scalar, or a
reference to an array
(*) Simple time zone handling
(*) Added Date_SetTime, Date_GetPrev, Date_GetNext
Bug fixes
Added copyright notice (requested by Tim Bunce)
VERSION 4.1 (1995-10-18)
New features
(*) Added DateCalc
Bug fixes
Changed %DATE_ to %DateManip::Date
(*) Rewrote ParseDateDelta
VERSION 4.0 (1995-08-13)
(*) First public release
New features
Added time first formats to ParseDate
Bug fixes
(*) Switched to perl 5
Cleaned up ParseDate, ParseDateDelta
VERSION 3.0 (1995-05-03)
New features
Added today/tomorrows/etc. formats
(*) Added UnixDate
(*) Added ParseDateDelta
Bug fixes
Added %DATE_ global variable to clean some stuff up
Simplified several routines
VERSION 2.0 (1995-04-17)
New features
Included ideas from Time::ParseDate (David Muir Sharnoff)
Included ideas from date.pl 3.2 (Terry McGonigal)
(*) Added seconds to ParseDate
Bug fixes
Made error checking much nicer
VERSION 1.2 (1995-03-31)
New features
Added a few date formats
Bug fixes
Made months case insensitive
VERSION 1.1 (1995-02-08)
New features
Added leap year checking
Both "Feb" and "February" formats available
VERSION 1.0 (1995-01-20)
(*) Initial release
Though not released to the public, the initial released combined routines from several
scripts into one library.
BUGS AND QUESTIONS
Please refer to the Date::Manip::Problems documentation for information on submitting bug
reports or questions to the author.
SEE ALSO
Date::Manip - main module documentation
LICENSE
This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.
AUTHOR
Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org)