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Date::Manip::Changes6(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Date::Manip::Changes6(3pm)
NAME
Date::Manip::Changes6 - changes in Date::Manip 6.xx
SYNOPSIS
This describes the changes made to the Date::Manip module in the 6.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 (!).
#=head1 VERSION 6.90 (expected 2022-12-01) # #=head1 VERSION 6.89 (expected 2022-09-01) #
#=head1 VERSION 6.88 (expected 2022-06-01) # #=head1 VERSION 6.87 (expected 2022-03-01)
VERSION 6.86 (2021-11-15)
Change warn to carp
All warnings are now issued with the carp command rather than warn. Requested in
GitHup pull request #18, but that request was not used because it only changed the
uses in the Date::Manip::Date module.
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where the next/prev Date::Manip::Recur methods gave incorrect results
when there are no dates that match the criteria. (GitHub #36)
Time zone fixes
There were no new timezone fixes on 2021-06-01 or 2021-09-01, so no releases made
then.
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2021e). (GitHub #37)
VERSION 6.85 (2021-03-01)
Test fixes
Missed some tests that were failing.
VERSION 6.84 (2021-03-01)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2021a).
Language fixes
Corrections and additions to Italian. Patch supplied by Leo Cacciari (GitHub #33)
VERSION 6.83 (2020-12-01)
Time zone fixes
No new zoneinfo data so no release on 2020-09-01.
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2020d). Requested by Shawn Carroll (GitHub #32)
VERSION 6.82 (2020-06-01)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2020a).
VERSION 6.81 (2020-03-01)
Messed up the 6.80 package. This release fixes it.
VERSION 6.80 (2020-03-01)
Missed Changes entry for previous version.
Reported by Tina Muller (GitHub #31)
VERSION 6.79 (2019-12-01)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2019c).
VERSION 6.78 (2019-08-29)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2019b).
Documentation fixes
Fixed a broken link. Mohammad S Anwar (GitHub #29)
VERSION 6.77 (2019-06-01)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2019a).
VERSION 6.76 (2019-03-01)
Fixed bug in Date::Manip::Date::list_holidays.
It was using 'now' instead of the stored date. Douglas DeStafeno
Reordered TZ detection methods
Moved checking the tzdata files to lower priority to avoid a pretty unusual situation
in docker. Sven Nierlein (GitHub #20)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2018i). Requested by Shawn C Carroll (GitHub #28)
VERSION 6.75 (2018-12-03)
Fixed packaging problems
Version 6.74 was not packaged correctly. Version wasn't set correctly in a few files
and there were invalid entries in Makefile.PL. RT 127870.
VERSION 6.74 (2018-12-01)
Removed travis file from the tarball
The tarball had a .travis.yml file in it that wasn't in the MANIFEST file. Since the
MANIFEST file is automatically generated by the perl mkmanifest tool, since it didn't
see the .travis.yml file, I have excluded it from the tarball. Reported by Mohammad S
Anwar on GitHub (#23)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2018e)
VERSION 6.73 (2018-09-01)
Fixed math on non-64-bit architectures
Much of the math in Date::Manip::Base is in a 'use integer' section. This math can
overflow in some cases in non-64-bit architectures. Fixed the cases where this would
reasonably occur. Reported by Daniel Albers (GitHub #22). Also reported and tested
in RT 126052.
Bug in normalizing estimated business deltas
While working on the non-64-bit issue, it uncovered a bug where normalizing estimated
business deltas was wrong. It had never been reported, and it was only off by a
couple seconds in some rare situations.
VERSION 6.72 (2018-06-06)
Fixed recurrence bug
The fix in the previous version for a rare recurrence problem broke another recurrence
form. It is now corrected. Michael Schout (GitHub #20)
Fixed version problem
The wrong version was included in two files for some reason. This is fixed.
Documentation fixes
Fixed a grammatical error reported by Xavier Guimard (GitHub #19).
VERSION 6.71 (2018-06-01)
Fixed an extremely rare problem with recurrences
It is possible to specify a recurrence that never produces a valid date. In these
cases, looking for dates went into an infinite loop. The MaxRecurAttempts config
variable was added which will stop that from happening. If no occurrence was found,
an error condition will be set. Dean Hamstead (RT 123708)
Changes file supported
It was requested that I include a valid Changes file. I wrote a simple script to
convert the Change6.pod file into a valid Change file. The Changes6.pod file is still
the canonical source of this information! Requested by H. Merijn Brand
Fix for timezone determination
On MacOS X High Sierra, some of the timezone files were symlinks, but not properly
followed. This was fixed by Stu Tomlinson (GitHub #15).
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2018e)
Documentation fixes
Minor fix provided by Mohammad S Anwar (GitHub #17)
VERSION 6.70 (2018-03-01)
(*) (!) Changes to deltas
Improved handling of deltas to better support the different types of deltas.
Formalized how the semi-exact portions of the delta are used to produce the results
that most people would expect.
The type can now be specified to guarantee several behaviors. Changed the arguments
(in a backward compatible way) to several methods. Explicitly added a new type
(estimated) which was there previously, but could not be manually specified.
The convert function continues to support converting from a less exact type to a more
exact type, but this is deprecated and will be removed in version 7.00.
This was prompted by a bug reported by Ian Gibbs.
(*) (!) Deprecated some parts of Date::Manip::Delta
The options passed to the set and parse methods have changed. The old style will be
removed in version 7.00.
Deltas will also no longer support the 'exact' and 'approximate' strings (which have
not been supported for some time). These will be removed in 7.00 as well.
Deprecation of TZ postponed
The deprecation of the TZ variable has been postponed to version 7.00.
Some speed improvements
I converted some of the functions to use faster algorithms. Previously, the steps
were worked out using logical time/calendar based calculations. These were replaced
with non-intuitive numerical calculations that gave the same result faster.
Changed behavior if timezone not determined
If the system timezone cannot be determined using any of the methods supplied by
Date::Manip, operations will be done in the GMT timezone. Previously, Date::Manip
would simply fail to load. Based on a report by Kent Fredric (RT 123229).
Fixed Makefile.PL
The list of what what is provided did not include the path to the file providing each
module. I've fixed the Makefile.PL as well as the META files. Graham Knop (GitHub
#13)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2018c)
Documentation fixes
Rewrote Date::Manip::Delta page to reflect changes, and clean up the documentation in
general.
VERSION 6.60 (2017-09-01)
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where if a recurrence had no interval, start and end dates passed in to
the dates method would not work. PJ-DSI-DevOps (GitHub #12).
Documentation fixes
Clarified Date::Manip::TZ::all_periods. Based on discussion with Peter Pfannenschmid.
VERSION 6.59 (2017-06-01)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2017b)
Documentation fixes
Improved some of the documentation.
VERSION 6.58 (2017-03-01)
Better support for $mode in DateCalc.
DateCalc (in DM6) did not support all values for $mode. Now it does.
Bug fixes
Parsing a date like 01/02/2016 and calling printf with %e gave '02' instead of ' 2'.
Robert Wohlfarth (RT 119787).
Fixed a problem where the tzdata method of determining the timezone was producing an
error which wasn't correct. John (GitHub #8)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2017a)
VERSION 6.57 (2016-12-01)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2016j)
Test fixes
A faulty test was failing in a few places. RT 118705
Another test was failing due to a perl bug that popped up in 5.25.7. Tweaked the test
to bypass the bug. Kent Fredric (RT 118862)
VERSION 6.56 (2016-09-09)
Test fixes
A faulty test was failing most places. New release to correct that problem. Slaven
Rezic (RT 117404)
VERSION 6.55 (2016-09-01)
Fixed bug where $::TZ wasn't used
The $::TZ variable was not getting interpreted correctly when searching for a
timezone. Steven Hartland (RT 114949)
Fixed bug where recurrences were not parsed correctly
Passing in incorrect values for a field was not trapped in all cases and it led to
problems. All values passed in to a recurrence are now correctly checked. Albert
Hilazo (GitHub #7).
Fixed a bug in some methods of creating new objects
Some methods of creating new objects based on existing objects did not correctly use
the existing object. Bug has never been reported, but was discovered when adding
tests to get 100% coverage.
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2016f)
Test fixes
Added a number of new tests based on Devel::Cover.
VERSION 6.54 (2016-05-31)
Deprecation of Date::Manip 5.xx tests
By default, the Date::Manip 5.xx tests will no longer run. Changes to the timezone
data can cause failures. Since Date::Manip 5.xx is no longer supported in any way,
these tests will no longer run on a system where 6.xx can be run. Richard Jelinek.
Deprecation of TZ postponed
The deprecation of the TZ variable has been postponed to March 2017. I decided that 1
year was not enough notice (especially since not everyone will have updated
Date::Manip since March 2015 when the warning was added.
Bug fixes
Changed requirement for ExtUtils::MakeMaker to 6.67_01. Quin Arnold (RT 112286)
Fixed a bug where a timezone abbreviation was not parsed correctly when passed in as a
value to the SetDate, ForceDate, or TZ config variables. Based on a report in
perlmonks.org.
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2016d)
Made some improvements to how I handled the timezone data which resulted in a few of
the default timezones being changed.
Documentation fixes
Fixed one more typo. Gregor Herrmann (RT 114095)
Clarified the Config document. Based on a report in perlmonks.org.
VERSION 6.53 (2016-03-02)
Bug fixes
Date::Manip::Delta::cmp had a bug in it's comparison. Ian Gibbs.
The secs_since_1970_GMT method was missing a test to see if it was a valid object.
Michael Stevens (RT 111915)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2016a)
Documentation fixes
Lots of typos fixed. I was using podspell to do spell checking, but it was discarding
too much real text (which wasn't getting checked as a result). Switched to pod2text
which does a better job. Gregor Herrmann (RT 110025)
VERSION 6.52 (2015-12-01)
Added date ranges on unmodified dates in Recur
The date range can now be specified for either the fully modified dates, or the
unmodified dates. This will make it easier to work with holidays in some instances.
Based on <http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1148735>.
Added IWn and NWn recurrence modifiers
Based on <http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1148735>.
(!) Reworked holidays slightly
Previously, every line in the Holidays section defined a unique holiday. Now, the
names determine the list of holidays.
It is not allowed to have two separate holidays named exactly the same. It IS allowed
to have complex holidays that require two (or more) lines in the Holidays section to
define them completely.
Based on <http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1148735>.
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where the RecurRange config variable wasn't getting used.
Fixed a bug where some deltas were not parsed correctly as dates. Salvatore
Bonaccorso (RT 109600)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2015g)
Test fixes
Added a number of new tests based on Devel::Cover.
VERSION 6.51 (2015-09-01)
Changes suggested by perlcritic
Played with perlcritic and made a few minor changes based on it's suggestions. I
doubt I will use perlcritic significantly.
(!) Date::Manip::Delta::value now returns an empty string
If a delta has an error, or no valid delta in it, the value method returns an empty
string instead of undef. This is to be consistent with the Date::Manip::Date::value
method which returns an empty string.
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where date/delta calculations with deltas that are too large was not
working correctly. They now set an error condition and fail. Jared Selengut (RT
105737)
Fixed a bug introduced by the previous patch and luckily discovered pre-release by Tom
Wyant.
Fixed code that produced a warning in 5.22.0. Tom Wyant
Improved DM6 ParseDate and ParseDateString
Added @opts argument. Based on report by Vitaly Shupak (RT 105622).
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2015f)
Now uses /etc/localtime as a method to determine the local timezone. Patch supplied
by Tom Wyant (RT 105159) (modified by me). The patch uses some code derived from
DateTime::TimeZone .
Clearer message when the date is not valid in the timezone.
Test fixes
Added a number of new tests based on Devel::Cover. Over the next several releases, I
intend to continue to add tests until coverage is 100%.
Documentation fixes
Fixed a typo. Gregor Herrmann (RT 105546)
VERSION 6.50 (2015-06-01)
Bug fixes
Not really a bug, but 6.49 got a bunch of NYTprof data bundled with it by mistake.
It's been removed. Olivier Mengue (RT 103252)
Fixed a bug where information about whether a date was complete or truncated was
discarded. Jim Avera
Fixed a bug where SetDate with a zone alias failed.
Added the Format_MMMYYYY config variable to allow the truncated format mmmYYYY to be
parsed instead of mmmDDYY. David W. Morganwalp and Glenn Golden (RT 103142)
Fixed Makefile.PL/Build.PL to correct for a change on perl on windows which changes a
module prereq requirement. Alexandr Ciornii
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2015d)
Added aliases for older HP-UX time zones. H. Merijn Brand (RT 104141)
Documentation fixes
Fixed URL for tzdata. Mohammad S Anwar (GitHub #3).
Better POD formats.
Fixed a documentation error. Glenn Golden (RT 103966)
VERSION 6.49 (2015-03-01)
Added a deprecation warning
The TZ config variable is going away. Added a deprecation warning.
Some speedups for timezone handling
Based on a report by Glenn Golden (RT 102284), I have done some optimization of the
timezone handling code.
Bug fixes
Added the missing is_date base method to Date::Manip::Base. Mario Domgoergen.
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2015a)
Language fixes
A number of corrections by Nicholas Riley
VERSION 6.48 (2014-12-01)
Put repository on GitHub
Suggested by Gabor Szabo
parse_time now parses ISO 8601 times
The parse_time routine wouldn't correctly parse ISO 8601 times. This is now fixed.
Parsing special dates with timezones now works
Parsing special date formats with timezones is now supported such as:
Christmas at noon PST
in 3 days at noon PST
now PST
epoch 3000000 PST
dm_zdump modified
To match the newest version of zdump, the gmtoff is now added at the end of each line.
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug in the printf method that would not handle embedded newlines correctly
(and resulted in an infinite loop if it were preceded by a '%'). Henrique Martins
Fixed a bug where '24:00' was not parsed correctly (though '24:00:00' was).
Fixed a bug where fractional values separated by a comma weren't parsed correctly.
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2014j)
VERSION 6.47 (2014-09-01)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2014f)
Language fixes
Fixed some encoding errors in the language pod documentation.
VERSION 6.46 (2014-07-08)
Broken distribution
The distribution contained an temporary edit file that caused problems. Alexandr
Ciornii (RT 96459)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2014e)
Language fixes
Added some plural abbreviations that were missing. Glenn Golden (RT 96944)
VERSION 6.45 (2014-06-05)
Fixed a test
One test was failing (reported by Constantine Peresypkin (RT 96249) as well as several
CPAN Tester reports).
VERSION 6.44 (2014-06-01)
(*) Improvements to UTF8 handling
A number of changes based on a report and other discussion with Yuri Nikulin (RT
93545) including:
Case insensitive matching of UTF8 strings should work all the time.
Fixed two significant bugs in regexps for parsing dates.
Improvements to UTF8 handling.
Corrected some problems with Russian and added the cp1251 encoding.
One correction to Romanian.
Added several new test scripts.
Preliminary patches were supplied by Yuri.
New features
Modified the parse_format function to return %+ if desired. Mike Cappella
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2014c)
Documentation fixes
Clarified some DM6 functions. David Close.
Fixed a typo. Mike Cappella (RT 95619)
VERSION 6.43 (2014-03-03)
Several changes to distribution files
I made several changes to Build.PL, Makefile.PL, META.yml in order to improve the
quality (or kwalitee) of the module. None of these should impact anyone using the
module.
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2013i)
Documentation fixes
Cleaned up some of the Recur documentation. Suggested by Warren Young (RT 92794)
VERSION 6.42 (2013-12-02)
Added ParseDateFormat function
Added the ParseDateFormat function to the DM6 functional interface in response to Eli
Lindsey (RT 89286).
Added Common Log format
Added the date format used in apache logs: 11/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700 Eli Lindsey (RT
89286).
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2013h)
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where dates of the form of a delta with a timezone attached (i.e. "1 day
ago at midnight UTC") failed. Ludovic Lange (RT 89256)
Fixed a bug where events handling gave a warning if there were no events that applied.
RT 90344
VERSION 6.41 (2013-09-05)
Bug fixes
Removed a .swp file accidentally left in the package. RT 85845
Fixed a bug in parse_format where times between 00:00:00 and 01:00:00 weren't parsed
correctly. Ole Nomann Thomsen
Fixed generated META.* files to not require Module::Build 0.39. Carsten Wolff (RT
86137)
Fixed a bug where parse_format did not work with a '%s' format. Mark Keisler (RT
87498)
Fixed a bug where find_encoding wasn't imported from the Encode module. Krishna
Subramanian (RT 87665)
Fixed a bug where recurrences with no interval did not work if a start and end date
were specified, and no dates fell in that range. Jan Pradac
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2013d)
VERSION 6.40 (2013-06-01)
Removed PODs
POD documentation is no longer generated for Date::Manip::TZ::* and
Date::Manip::Offset::* modules.
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2013c)
VERSION 6.39 (2013-03-01)
Added the $mode argument to ParseDateDelta
The ParseDateDelta function (in functional interface) did not allow you to force a
parsed delta to semi or approx where appropriate. This was added. Based on RT 82991.
Added get_config method
The get_config method was added to all classes. Suggested by Philippe Poilbarbe.
Language fixes
Fixed a German language problem. Gosta Oelstrom
Documentation fixes
Documented workaround for dmake problem in strawberry perl. Discussed on perlmonks
and Martin Thurn (RT 79837).
Clarified the Examples page. Winston Heng
VERSION 6.38 (2013-01-08)
(*) Tar file format corrected
Problems were reported on several OSes by people unable to install Date::Manip (and
other modules). It turns out that the version of tar distributed by my linux distro
(OpenSuSE) uses the 'posix' format instead of the traditional 'gnu' format by default.
This causes problems for some versions of tar. I have had reports from OSX, Windows,
and SunOS. Future versions of Date::Manip will be explicitly distributed in the 'gnu'
tar archive format.
Reported by Jay Allen and John Ralls (RT 80594).
(*) Date::Manip 5.xx end-of-life
Date::Manip 5.xx is now officially out of support. I will not be doing any further
work on it. The only exception is that I will consider adding user supplied patches
on a case-by-case basis.
If at all possible, please use Date::Manip 6.xx instead.
(!) Removed some deprecated config variables
The following config variables have been removed.
IntCharSet
RecurNumFudgeDays
VERSION 6.37 (2012-12-01)
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where ISO 8601 format YYYY-WXX-D didn't work if the week ended up in
December. Gordon Lugauer.
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2012j)
Documentation fixes
Spelling error fixed. RT 80621
VERSION 6.36 (2012-10-31)
Fix version numbers
This was an interim release to fix the version numbers (6.35 was released with all of
the version numbers 6.34).
VERSION 6.35 (2012-10-31)
Fix PATH
This version was an interim release to fix the problem with the PATH being replaced.
Removed dependency on YAML
I've reverted the language data files to perl literals instead of YAML. Though not
quite as easy to maintain, it solves a few problems. Patch provided by Christopher
Madsen.
Bug fixes
Last versions fix for RT 78566 overrode the PATH even when that wasn't appropriate.
This is fixed. Report and patch supplied by Tom Wyant (RT 80435).
VERSION 6.34 (2012-09-04)
This is a bug fix so that the PATH won't break non-unix installs.
Bug fixes
Put the PATH inside the Unix section so it doesn't affect non-unix environments.
Geoff Rowell
VERSION 6.33 (2012-09-01)
Improvements to Date::Manip::Delta
Added convert method. This had been planned since 6.30, but based on a discussion
with Henrique Martins, I moved it up in priority.
Cleaned up handling of delta field lengths (they are now only calculated once.
Added cmp method. Henrique Martins
Bug fixes
The language modules read from the DATA section, but I never closed the filehandle.
This is fixed now. Patch by Doru Theodor Petrescu
Added better loading of DM5/DM6 modules. Evan Carroll (RT 78152)
Added a secure PATH to TZ.pm for taint reasons. In response to Dan Pritts (RT 78566)
Time zone fixes
Now supports timezones in files with spaces where there should be underscores. This
occurs in RHEL desktop. Dan Pritts (RT 78566)
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2012e)
Documentation fixes
Minor fix. Henrique Martins
VERSION 6.32 (2012-06-01)
Modified Build.PL
Build.PL now has better support for building (or not building) HTML files. Apparently
this is slow on Windows. Patch provide by Manoj Kumar (RT 75118)
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug in business day calculations. Frederic Briere (RT 76336)
Fixed a bug where Delta/Recur objects weren't correctly created. Zsban Ambrus
Fixed a bug where SetDate/ForceDate config variables could not be included in a file.
Jerry Wilcox
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2012c).
Documentation fixes
Better support for UTF-8 in autogenerated language module pod files.
VERSION 6.31 (2012-03-01)
Added extended formats to printf method.
These include the %<A=NUM>, %<a=NUM>, %<v=NUM>, %<B=NUM>, %<b=NUM>, %<p=NUM>, and
%<E=NUM> formats. Chris Jackson
Can now parse formats where the time and zone are not adjacent
A string like 'Jan 21 17:13:27 2010 -0400' can now be parsed. Requested on perlmonks
('Can Date::Manip parse a unix timestamp' thread).
Added PeriodTimeSep config variable.
This allows you to use a period as a time separator. Ed Avis
Holidays can be used as date strings
You can now parse a holiday name in the Date::Manip::Date::parse method. For example,
parse('Christmas'). Requested by Abigail.
Added new recur modifiers
Added WDn, IBD, and NBD modifiers.
Added a new date format
You can now parse '2nd day in May' formats. Randy Harmon
More flexibility in parsing timezones with both offset and abbrev
If you include both the offset and abbreviation in the timezone portion of a date, the
parenthesis around the abbreviation are now optional, so you can parse both:
-04:00 (EDT)
-04:00 EDT
Requested by Steven Melendez.
Deltas now support fractional values.
You can now use a delta of 1.5 days. Martin Thurn (RT 42699)
Multiple holidays supported
A date may now have multiple holidays. Keith Minkler
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where abbreviations were not being examined case insensitively. Jurgen
Muck
The Holidays section may be safely split across multiple config files. A bug
prevented this from working before.
Language fixes
The Norwegian translation was broken due to a typo in the language module.
Included complete documentation for each language.
Fixed a couple problems with Danish. Nicholas Oxhaj
Added Finnish (from a VERY old mail that I overlooked somehow). Iikka Virkkunen
Cleaned up the values used by printf directives to give the expected result.
Documentation fixes
Fixed a typo. Nicholas Bamber
VERSION 6.30 (2012-01-11)
(*) (!) Reworked deltas
Much of the delta code was reworked.
The constraint that a day is treated as 24 hours was removed (by adding the concept of
semi-exact deltas) to better handle daylight saving time calculations.
Made cosmetic changes to which signs will be included in a delta to make the deltas
more readable. Signs which are the same as the next higher field will be omitted,
even if they cross set boundaries.
Added support for non-normalized deltas. See the $no_normalize option for the parse
and set methods.
Removed limitations on subtract=2 not working with business calculations.
Thanks to discussion on perlmonks, and RT 65774 that prompted me to do this. I'd been
wanting to do it for some time, but the discussion on perlmonks made me realize that
this needed to be much higher priority.
(!) Modified Delta_Format
In conjunction with the above work, added the 'semi' mode to Delta_Format.
(!) Removed some deprecated config variables
The following config variables have been removed.
GlobalCnf
IgnoreGlobalCnf
PersonalCnf
PersonalCnfPath
PathSep
Internal
DeltaSigns
UpdateCurrTZ
ConvTZ
OldConfigFiles
ResetWorkDay
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2011n). RT 71595
Corrects a bug where +0000 and -0000 offsets were not parsed correctly. Aaron Hall
The zoneinfo data includes rules more than 20 years in the future, so we now store 30
years of future dates instead of 20 to catch these rules.
When parsing the timezone portion of the date, timezone abbreviations now take higher
precedence than zone names (since that is how timezone information is typically
specified). That only impacts dates where the a timezone name is the same as an
abbreviation, such as 'CET'.
Previously, a date with CET in it was interpreted as in the CET timezone. Now it is
interpreted as in a timezone with the CET abbreviation.
Better handling of undef in DM6
The date/delta parsing routines in DM6 will now handle an undef argument without
issuing a warning. Earl C. Ruby III
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug with the parse_format %f and %i formats. Tommi Rintala
Fixed a bug where the Date::Manip::Delta::set function didn't work to set the month
value.
Fixed a bug where parsing some dates near during a DST change failed.
Minor bug fix when using Delta_Format. Prompted while investigating RT 41095.
VERSION 6.25 (2011-08-31)
Relaxed one constraint in ISO 8601 dates
A time separated by whitespace from the date can use a single digit hour. Yuming
Philip Xiang
(*) Set official removal dates for old config variables
Config variables will be removed 2 years after they are deprecated (except for the TZ
variable which, due to it's wide use, will be kept for 4 years).
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2011i)
VERSION 6.24 (2011-06-13)
New features
Spaces are ignored in the SetDate/ForceDate config values. Zsban Ambrus
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where 'in one week' wasn't correctly parsed. E. M. Shtern
Fixed a bug where options passed in to the 'new' as a listref weren't handled
properly. Zsban Ambrus
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2011g)
VERSION 6.23 (2011-04-15)
(!) Renamed one Date::Manip::Recur method
The Date::Manip::Recur::base method has been renamed to basedate . The
Date::Manip::Recur::base method should return the Date::Manip::Base object like all
the other Date::Manip modules.
(*) Reworked holidays defined as recurrences
Improved dealing with the bootstrap problem of defining holidays, especially those
that contain business day flags. Mike Tonks
New features
The printf function will now take multiple format strings and return a list of values.
Zsban Ambrus
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where GlobalCnf wasn't working. Peter Edwards
Improved error messages in a few cases.
Fixed a bug where one invalid date/timezone check was ignored. Morten Bjornsvik
Fixed a bug where '$base2 = new Date::Manip::Base $base1' wasn't working. RT 67143
Fixed a bug where passing dates in to the Recur->dates method failed. RT 67144
Fixed a bug where the mode wasn't being preserved correctly for a delta. RT 67150
Fixed a bug in recurrences where a base date outside of a date range with a very
uncommon recurrence format would not work correctly.
Fixed a problem where the '%s' printf option didn't work in GMT. Jean-Michel Hiver
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2011f)
Documentation fixes
Fixed two bad recurrence examples in the documentation. Peter Edwards and Mike Tonks
VERSION 6.22 (2011-03-07)
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2011b)
Fixed a bug where the gmtoff method of getting the local timezone was broken. Martin
Zinser.
Fixed the 'env' method of determining the local time zone to allow the value to be an
offset of seconds since UTC. This allows the VMS SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL variable
to work correctly. Martin Zinser.
Removed the SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE method from VMS since the value stored there is not the
name of a timezone (it's a rule in a non-standard format). Based on discussion with
Martin Zinser.
Improved the order in which aliases, abbreviations, etc., are tested to test current
usage before non-current usage (there were a few cases where old usages were getting
tested before current usage.
Language fixes
The module will now die if a language module cannot be loaded (most likely due to a
YAML::Syck issue). Based on discussion with Martin Zinser.
Documentation fixes
Added a sample config file document. Based on discussion with Rich Duzenbury.
VERSION 6.21 (2011-01-10)
New features
Deltas may now contain spelled out numbers, so 'in 2 weeks' and 'in two weeks' will
both work. Daniel Shahaf
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where week_of_year didn't work in some cases. Chris Eveland.
Fixed a minor potential bug. Geraint Edwards.
Time zone fixes
Updated windows time zone aliases. Daniel Harding
Language fixes
Added Norwegian. Glenn Sogn
VERSION 6.20 (2010-12-01)
(*) (!) Reworked recurrences
Recurrences were reworked in a (slightly) backward incompatible way to improve their
usefulness (and to make them conform to the expected results). Most recurrences will
work the same as previously, but a few will differ. Most of this was suggested by Jay
Jacobs.
A recurring event is now calculated relative to the base date, NOT relative to a
previous event. For example, if a recurrence occurs every month, and the base date was
Jan 31, then previously, recurring events would have been (in a non-leap year):
D(0) = Jan 31
D(1) = D(0) + 1 month = Feb 28
D(2) = D(1) + 1 month = Mar 28
...
The new behavior is:
D(0) = Jan 31
D(1) = D(0) + 1*(1 month) = Feb 28
D(2) = D(0) + 2*(1 month) = Mar 31
...
Previously, if a base date were not specified, it was not determined from the date
range. Now, the start date of the date range acts as the base date.
The meaning of the base date has changed slightly. It is much more meaningful and
useful now.
Added iterator functions. Daniel LaLiberte
The RecurNumFudgeDays variable is no longer used and is deprecated.
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2010o)
VERSION 6.14 (2010-10-20)
(*) Date::Manip 5.xx fully integrated with 6.xx
Date::Manip 5.xx and 6.xx are both installed automatically, and the correct one will
be chosen.
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where recurrence handling was broken. RT 62128
Documentation fixes
A lot of documentation was cleaned up to be easier to read, and better organized.
VERSION 6.13 (2010-10-13)
New features
Added the input methods to Date::Manip::Date and Date::Manip::Delta. Ed Avis.
The 'date +%z' command will also be used to determine the timezone. Oliver Schulze
Bug fixes
Several changes to try to get rid of a memory leaks reported in RT 54937. Huge thanks
to BrowserUK on perlmonks for help. Unfortunately, it ended up being a bug in perl,
and will only be resolved when that bug is fixed. See the Date::Manip::Problems
document for more information.
Reorganized Base/TZ to get rid of circular references.
Added end blocks to clean some global variables.
Got rid of switch/given structures.
Fixed a bug where an incomplete date with 'last' in it was causing an error. RT 60138
Fixed a bug where 'Sunday, 9th Jan 1972' wasn't parsed correctly. RT 57832
Time zone fixes
Fixed a bug where Zones.pm was generated with the abbreviations in the wrong order.
Amish Chana.
Language fixes
French month abbreviations now support periods. Bernard Haerri
Test fixes
Added tests from RT 29655 to make sure that the problem never recurs.
Documentation fixes
Fixed documentation problem with the new_* methods in Date::Manip::Obj. Options must
be passed in as \@opts rather than @opts.
Cleaned up some of the documentation.
VERSION 6.12 (2010-09-27)
(!) IntCharSet config variable deprecated
With better support for international character sets, the old IntCharSet config
variable (which was a bandaid at best) is deprecated. Currently, the functionality
still exists, but it will be removed at some point.
New features
Added the Encoding config variable.
Now supports parsing the EXIF date format. Rhesa Rozendaal
Bug fixes
Fixed Build.PL to not require perl 5.010 since the distribution as a whole does not
require that (and I want that fact to be in META.yml).
Fixed a bug where the Date::Manip::Date::set method was broken when setting individual
fields. Helmut A. Bender
Fixed a bug where set didn't work in Date::Manip::Delta. Patch provided in RT 59096.
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2010m)
Language fixes
(*) Converted all language files to UTF-8 and added rudimentary support for character
encodings. Some assistance by Stephen Ostermiller.
Fixed problem in Polish, Dutch. Stephen Ostermiller
Extended support for 'nth' up to 53rd. Paco Regodon
Added some corrections to German. Dieter Lange
Documentation fixes
Clarified Date::Manip::Recur documentation based on RT 59132.
VERSION 6.11 (2010-04-30)
Bug fixes
Fixed a problem in Build.PL that had an incorrect module requirement.
VERSION 6.10 (2010-04-29)
(*) Combined 5.xx and 6.xx releases into one distribution
Because the automatic module management tools cpan/cpanp would try to upgrade
Date::Manip to the most recent version, and the most recent version will only work if
perl 5.10.0 or higher is installed, both the 5.xx and 6.xx releases are now combined
into a single distribution.
This is described more fully in the Date::Manip::Problems document.
(!) Zones specified by offset
In all operations involving time zones, the time zone must be determined. By default,
it would take all of the information available (date, ISDST, etc.) and determine the
most likely time zone. It would take every time zone that matched each piece of
information, starting with those that matched in a standard time followed by those
that matched in a daylight saving time.
When zones are specified by an offset, a standard time would always match since there
are standard time zones that match all year long (the military time zones A-Z and the
standard time zones of the form Etc/GMT+01). As a result, a daylight saving time match
would never occur.
Since (if the date falls during a daylight saving time period) you usually want to use
a time zone that has that offset in daylight saving time, the default is now to check
daylight saving time zones first, followed by standard times.
See the Date::Manip::TZ manual (under the zone method) for more information.
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where Date_ConvTZ not working correctly with time zones specified by
offset. Chris Butler
Fixed a bug where business mode calculations involving minutes was not handled
correctly. Damien Moore
Fixed a bug where business mode calculations failed in some cases. RT 56638
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2010i)
Changed Date::Manip::TZ::zone so "dst" is sometimes the default $dstflag. Based on
the bug report by Chris Butler.
OpenUNIX puts a colon at the start of some time zones. It's removed. Jean Hassler
Test fixes
Converted tests to Test::Inter
Documentation fixes
Fixed a documentation bug in Date::Manip::TZ where "stdonly" was listed as the default
value for $dstflag, but in actuality, "std" is the default.
VERSION 6.07 (2010-02-05)
Bug fixes
Fixed bug in Date_TimeZone where it wasn't returning the time zone. Robert Eden
VERSION 6.06 (2010-02-05)
Bug fixes
Minor bug where %Z printf format didn't always work.
Added support for 5pm back in (it was omitted accidentally). Mark Kennedy
Fixed a minor warning. Morten Bjoernsvik
Some additional speedups.
Time zone fixes
Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2010b)
Added dm_zdump example script.
Improved TZ::periods functionality
Fixed bug in Date_ConvTZ where empty values weren't defaulting to local time zone.
Robert Eden
Fixed a couple of problems in the generated time zones for some odd cases
(America/Resolute and Asia/Tehran).
VERSION 6.05 (2009-12-09)
(!) %z format
In Date::Manip 5.xx, the %z format in UnixDate printed the offset in the form -0500.
In 6.00, I changed that to -05:00:00, but this broke RFC 822 compliance.
I've changed %z back to -0500, and introduced a new format (%N) which returns
-05:00:00.
Incidentally, this is the LAST unused letter, so I am now going to have to either stop
adding formats, or add some extended format syntax. Not sure yet which, but this may
involve a backwards incompatible change in the future.
(*) Significant speedups.
Thanks to Moritz Lenz and BrowserUK on perlmonks for suggestions (and a number of
other people on perlmonks for suggestions that I did not end up using, but which
provided a great discussion).
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug in parse_date where the current time was getting used instead of the
documented 00:00:00
Bug fix where DateCalc didn't work with $mode in some cases.
Fixed Makefile.PL/Build.PL to handle Win32::TieRegistry requirement.
Changed %z printf behavior back to 5.xx and added %N format. Gilles Lamiral
Added dm_date example script.
Time zone fixes
Fixed bug where non-English Windows versions didn't get the time zone. Thanks to Rene
Schickbauer for testing.
Test fixes
Reduced the precision of 1 test to avoid a rounding difference when using a perl
compiled with uselongdouble. Andreas Koenig
VERSION 6.04 (2009-11-25)
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug where events were not interpreted in the correct time zone if
SetDate/ForceDate used.
VERSION 6.03 (2009-11-24)
Bug fixes
Corrects a backward incompatibility with UnixDate. Rene Schickbauer
Test fixes
A couple more corrections to the tests.
VERSION 6.02 (2009-11-24)
Bug fixes
Disabled curr_zone_methods when taint checking on. I believe that Date::Manip is
completely taint friendly at this point.
Test fixes
A quick fix to make sure that the tests run correctly in other time zones.
VERSION 6.01 (2009-11-23)
Bug fixes
(*) Fixed a bug where dates were sometimes getting the wrong time zone when
SetDate/ForceDate in effect.
VERSION 6.00 (2009-11-23)
First release of the 6.xx series
Date::Manip 6.00 is a total rethink of the module, and a nearly complete rewrite.
Please refer to the Date::Manip::Changes5to6 document for a list of incompatible
changes.
Reorganization
(*) Massive reorganization and near total rewrite.
(*) Broke into several smaller modules
New Features
(*) Full time zone support (using tzdata 2009s)
Added some functionality (suggested by James Elson to improve setting the "current
time". Done with the ForceDate config variable.
(*) Converted languages to YAML for much easier maintenance. Patch and suggestion
provided by Evan Carroll
Added much better formats for deltas. Suggested by Jim Hranicky.
Borrowed the _FindWindowsTZName function from the DateTime-TimeZone module.
Added SetDate config variable (based on a suggestion by Christian Campbell).
Added parse_format which was first suggested by Kim Ryan.
Other changes
Several config variables deprecated
Thanks to Jonathan Hogue for helping test Windows additions.
Bug fixes (correcting problems in the 5.xx releases)
Fixed a bug where "YYtoYYYY=c" wouldn't work.
VMS bugfix to not call `date` command. Lane
New Year's Day defined using a recurrence which might push the observed day to the
previous year was broken. Reported by Jerry Wilcox.
Language fixes
Fixed typo in Turkish translation.
Spelling fix in Dutch. Bart Van Loon
Additional credits
I have received many suggestions over time which were automatically handled during the
6.00 rewrite. Although the changes weren't made because of the suggestions
specifically, I wanted to acknowledge them since I appreciate the suggestions.
I believe the first person to suggest writing Date::Manip as an OO module was Eduard
Derksen.
Delta_Format initialization done outside of the function. Eric Boehm
Added $subtract to calculation routines. First suggested by Steve Berlage.
Added ability to set individual parts of the date (Date::Manip::Date::set). First
suggested by Martin Thurn.
UnixDate (i.e. Date::Manip::Date::printf) only calculates formats when they are
needed. Eduard Derksen
Parsing will skip some date/time formats if requested. This was first suggested by
Eduard Derksen.
It has been suggested several times to support multiple languages, multiple config
files, or multiple sets of Date_Init options. These suggestions (by Meng Fang, Ed
Avis, Christian Campbell, and perhaps others) were at the back of my mind as I
developed the Date::Manip::Base class.
The regular expressions are all i18n friendly in anticipation of much better support
for localization. First suggested by Alex Kapranoff.
Parsing a date ('today', 'Monday') gives a time of '00:00:00'. Suggested by Mark
Aitchison.
Working with fractional days was suggested by Peter van Hardenberg. This is
implemented in Date::Manip::Base::day_of_year method.
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 AT cpan.org)
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