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6 Date::Manip::Changes6 - changes in Date::Manip 6.xx
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9 This describes the changes made to the Date::Manip module in the 6.xx
10 series of releases. Major changes are marked with asterisks (*).
11 For the most part, Date::Manip has remained backward compatible at
13 every release, but occasionally, a change is made which is backward
14 incompatible. These are marked with an exclamation mark (!).
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22 Bug fixes
23 Removed a .swp file accidentally left in the package. RT 85845
24 Fixed a bug in parse_format where times between 00:00:00 and
26 01:00:00 weren't parsed correctly. Ole Nomann Thomsen
27 Fixed generated META.* files to not require Module::Build 0.39. RT
29 86137
30 Fixed a bug where parse_format did not work with a '%s' format. RT
32 87498
33 Fixed a bug where find_encoding wasn't imported from the Encode
35 module. RT 87665
36 Fixed a bug where recurrences with no interval did not work if a
38 start and end date were specified, and no dates fell in that range.
39 Jan Pradac
40 Time zone fixes
42 Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2013d)
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45 Removed PODs
46 POD documentation is no longer generated for Date::Manip::TZ::* and
47 Date::Manip::Offset::* modules.
48 Time zone fixes
50 Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2013c)
51
53 Added the $mode argument to ParseDateDelta
54 The ParseDateDelta function (in functional interface) did not allow
55 you to force a parsed delta to semi or approx where appropriate.
56 This was added. Based on RT 82991).
57 Added get_config method
59 The get_config method was added to all classes. Suggested by
60 Philippe Poilbarbe.
61 Language fixes
63 Fixed a German language problem. Gosta Oelstrom
64 Documentation fixes
66 Documented workaround for dmake problem in strawberry perl.
67 Discussed on perlmonks and RT 79837.
68 Clarified the Examples page. Winston Heng
70
72 (*) Tar file format corrected
73 Problems were reported on several OSes by people unable to install
74 Date::Manip (and other modules). It turns out that the version of
75 tar distributed by my linux distro (OpenSuSE) uses the 'posix'
76 format instead of the traditional 'gnu' format by default. This
77 causes problems for some versions of tar. I have had reports from
78 OSX, Windows, and SunOS. Future versions of Date::Manip will be
79 explicitly distributed in the 'gnu' tar archive format.
80 Reported by Jay Allen and RT 80594.
82 (*) Date::Manip 5.xx end-of-life
84 Date::Manip 5.xx is now officially out of support. I will not be
85 doing any further work on it. The only exception is that I will
86 consider adding user supplied patches on a case-by-case basis.
87 If at all possible, please use Date::Manip 6.xx instead.
89 (!) Removed some deprecated config variables
91 The following config variables have been removed.
92 IntCharset
94 RecurNumFudgeDays
95
97 Bug fixes
98 Fixed a bug where ISO 8601 format YYYY-WXX-D didn't work if the
99 week ended up in December. Gordon Lugauer.
100 Time zone fixes
102 Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2012j)
103 Documentation fixes
105 Spelling error fixed. RT 80621
106
108 This was an interim release to fix the version numbers (6.35 was
109 released with all of the version numbers 6.34).
110
112 This was an interim release to fix the problem with the PATH being
113 replaced.
114 Removed dependency on YAML
116 I've reverted the language data files to perl literals instead of
117 YAML. Though not quite as easy to maintain, it solves a few
118 problems. Patch provided by Christopher Madsen.
119 Bug fixes
121 Last versions fix for RT 78566 overrode the PATH even when that
122 wasn't appropriate. This is fixed. Report and patch supplied by
123 RT 80435.
124
126 This is a bug fix so that the PATH won't break non-unix installs.
127 Bug fixes
129 Put the PATH inside the Unix section so it doesn't affect non-unix
130 environments. Geoff Rowell
131
133 Improvements to Date::Manip::Delta
134 Added convert method. This had been planned since 6.30, but based
135 on a discussion with Henrique Martins, I moved it up in priority.
136 Cleaned up handling of delta field lengths (they are now only
138 calculated once.
139 Added cmp method. Henrique Martins
141 Bug fixes
143 The language modules read from the DATA section, but I never
144 closed the filehandle. This is fixed now. Patch by Doru Theodor
145 Petrescu
146 Added better loading of DM5/DM6 modules. RT 78512
148 Added a secure PATH to TZ.pm for taint reasons. In response to RT
150 78566
151 Time zone fixes
153 Now supports timezones in files with spaces where there should be
154 underscores. This occurs in RHEL desktop. RT 78566
155 Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2012e)
157 Documentation fixes
159 Minor fix. Henrique Martins
160
162 Modified Build.PL
163 Build.PL now has better support for building (or not building) HTML
164 files. Apparently this is slow on Windows. Patch provide in RT
165 75118.
166 Bug fixes
168 Fixed a bug in business day calculations. RT 76336
169 Fixed a bug where Delta/Recur objects weren't correctly created.
171 Zsban Ambrus
172 Fixed a bug where SetDate/ForceDate config variables could not be
174 included in a file. Jerry Wilcox
175 Time zone fixes
177 Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2012c).
178 Documentation fixes
180 Better support for UTF-8 in autogenerated language module pod
181 files.
182
184 Added extended formats to printf method.
185 These include the %<A=NUM>, %<a=NUM>, %<v=NUM>, %<B=NUM>, %<b=NUM>,
186 %<p=NUM>, and %<E=NUM> formats. Chris Jackson
187 Can now parse formats where the time and zone are not adjacent
189 A string like 'Jan 21 17:13:27 2010 -0400' can now be parsed.
190 Requested on perlmonks ('Can Date::Manip parse a unix timestamp'
191 thread).
192 Added PeriodTimeSep config variable.
194 This allows you to use a period as a time separator. Ed Avis
195 Holidays can be used as date strings
197 You can now parse a holiday name in the Date::Manip::Date::parse
198 method. For example, parse('Christmas'). Requested by Abigail.
199 Added new recur modifiers
201 Added WDn, IBD, and NBD modifiers.
202 Added a new date format
204 You can now parse '2nd day in May' formats. Randy Harmon
205 More flexibility in parsing timezones with both offset and abbrev
207 If you include both the offset and abbreviation in the timezone
208 portion of a date, the parenthesis around the abbreviation are now
209 optional, so you can parse both:
210 -04:00 (EDT)
212 -04:00 EDT
213 Requested by Steven Melendez.
215 Deltas now support fractional values.
217 You can now use a delta of 1.5 days. RT 42699
218 Multiple holidays supported
220 A date may now have multiple holidays. Keith Minkler
221 Bug fixes
223 Fixed a bug where abbreviations were not being examined case
224 insensitively. Jurgen Muck
225 The Holidays section may be safely split across multiple config
227 files. A bug prevented this from working before.
228 Language fixes
230 The Norwegian translation was broken due to a typo in the language
231 module.
232 Included complete documentation for each language.
234 Fixed a couple problems with Danish. Nicholas Oxhaj
236 Added Finnish (from a VERY old mail that I overlooked somehow).
238 Iikka Virkkunen
239 Cleaned up the values used by printf directives to give the
241 expected result.
242 Documentation fixes
244 Fixed a typo. Nicholas Bamber
245
247 (*) (!) Reworked deltas
248 Much of the delta code was reworked.
249 The constraint that a day is treated as 24 hours was removed (by
251 adding the concept of semi-exact deltas) to better handle daylight
252 saving time calculations.
253 Made cosmetic changes to which signs will be included in a delta to
255 make the deltas more readable. Signs which are the same as the
256 next higher field will be omitted, even if they cross set
257 boundaries.
258 Added support for non-normalized deltas. See the $no_normalize
260 option for the parse and set methods.
261 Removed limitations on subtract=2 not working with business
263 calculations.
264 Thanks to discussion on perlmonks, and RT 65774 that prompted me to
266 do this. I'd been wanting to do it for some time, but the
267 discussion on perlmonks made me realize that this needed to be much
268 higher priority.
269 (!) Modified Delta_Format
271 In conjunction with the above work, added the 'semi' mode to
272 Delta_Format.
273 (!) Removed some deprecated config variables
275 The following config variables have been removed.
276 GlobalCnf
278 IgnoreGlobalCnf
279 PersonalCnf
280 PersonalCnfPath
281 PathSep
282 Internal
284 DeltaSigns
285 UpdateCurrTZ
286 ConvTZ
287 OldConfigFiles
288 ResetWorkDay
289 Time zone fixes
291 Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2011n). RT 71595
292 Corrects a bug where +0000 and -0000 offsets were not parsed
294 correctly. Aaron Hall
295 The zoneinfo data includes rules more than 20 years in the future,
297 so we now store 30 years of future dates instead of 20 to catch
298 these rules.
299 When parsing the timezone portion of the date, timezone
301 abbreviations now take higher precedence than zone names (since
302 that is how timezone information is typically specified). That
303 only impacts dates where the a timezone name is the same as an
304 abbreviation, such as 'CET'.
305 Previously, a date with CET in it was interpreted as in the CET
307 timezone. Now it is interpreted as in a timezone with the CET
308 abbreviation.
309 Better handling of undef in DM6
311 The date/delta parsing routines in DM6 will now handle an undef
312 argument without issuing a warning. Earl C. Ruby III
313 Bug fixes
315 Fixed a bug with the parse_format %f and %i formats. Tommi Rintala
316 Fixed a bug where the Date::Manip::Delta::set function didn't work
318 to set the month value.
319 Fixed a bug where parsing some dates near during a DST change
321 failed.
322 Minor bug fix when using Delta_Format. Prompted while
324 investigating RT 41095.
325
327 Relaxed one constraint in ISO 8601 dates
328 A time separated by whitespace from the date can use a single digit
329 hour. Yuming Philip Xiang
330 (*) Set official removal dates for old config variables
332 Config variables will be removed 2 years after they are deprecated
333 (except for the TZ variable which, due to it's wide use, will be
334 kept for 4 years).
335 Time zone fixes
337 Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2011i)
338
340 New features
341 Spaces are ignored in the SetDate/ForceDate config values. Zsban
342 Ambrus
343 Bug fixes
345 Fixed a bug where 'in one week' wasn't correctly parsed. E. M.
346 Shtern
347 Fixed a bug where options passed in to the 'new' as a listref
349 weren't handled properly. Zsban Ambrus
350 Time zone fixes
352 Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2011g)
353
355 (!) Renamed one Date::Manip::Recur method
356 The Date::Manip::Recur::base method has been renamed to basedate .
357 The Date::Manip::Recur::base method should return the
358 Date::Manip::Base object like all the other Date::Manip modules.
359 (*) Reworked holidays defined as recurrences
361 Improved dealing with the bootstrap problem of defining holidays,
362 especially those that contain business day flags. Mike Tonks
363 New features
365 The printf function will now take multiple format strings and
366 return a list of values. Zsban Ambrus
367 Bug fixes
369 Fixed a bug where GlobalCnf wasn't working. Peter Edwards
370 Improved error messages in a few cases.
372 Fixed a bug where one invalid date/timezone check was ignored.
374 Morten Bjornsvik
375 Fixed a bug where '$base2 = new Date::Manip::Base $base1' wasn't
377 working. RT 67143
378 Fixed a bug where passing dates in to the Recur->dates method
380 failed. RT 67144
381 Fixed a bug where the mode wasn't being preserved correctly for a
383 delta. RT 67150
384 Fixed a bug in recurrences where a base date outside of a date
386 range with a very uncommon recurrence format would not work
387 correctly.
388 Fixed a problem where the '%s' printf option didn't work in GMT.
390 Jean-Michel Hiver
391 Time zone fixes
393 Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2011f)
394 Documentation fixes
396 Fixed two bad recurrence examples in the documentation. Peter
397 Edwards and Mike Tonks
398
400 Time zone fixes
401 Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2011b)
402 Fixed a bug where the gmtoff method of getting the local timezone
404 was broken. Martin Zinser.
405 Fixed the 'env' method of determining the local time zone to allow
407 the value to be an offset of seconds since UTC. This allows the
408 VMS SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL variable to work correctly. Martin
409 Zinser.
410 Removed the SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE method from VMS since the value
412 stored there is not the name of a timezone (it's a rule in a non-
413 standard format). Based on discussion with Martin Zinser.
414 Improved the order in which aliases, abbreviations, etc., are
416 tested to test current usage before non-current usage (there were a
417 few cases where old usages were getting tested before current
418 usage.
419 Language fixes
421 The module will now die if a language module cannot be loaded (most
422 likely due to a YAML::Syck issue). Based on discussion with Martin
423 Zinser.
424 Documentation fixes
426 Added a sample config file document. Based on discussion with Rich
427 Duzenbury.
428
430 New features
431 Deltas may now contain spelled out numbers, so 'in 2 weeks' and 'in
432 two weeks' will both work. Daniel Shahaf
433 Bug fixes
435 Fixed a bug where week_of_year didn't work in some cases. Chris
436 Eveland.
437 Fixed a minor potential bug. Geraint Edwards.
439 Time zone fixes
441 Updated windows time zone aliases. Daniel Harding
442 Language fixes
444 Added Norwegian. Glenn Sogn
445
447 (*) (!) Reworked recurrences
448 Recurrences were reworked in a (slightly) backward incompatible way
449 to improve their usefulness (and to make them conform to the
450 expected results). Most recurrences will work the same as
451 previously, but a few will differ. Most of this was suggested by
452 Jay Jacobs.
453 A recurring event is now calculated relative to the base date, NOT
455 relative to a previous event. For example, if a recurrence occurs
456 every month, and the base date was Jan 31, then previously,
457 recurring events would have been (in a non-leap year):
458 D(0) = Jan 31
460 D(1) = D(0) + 1 month = Feb 28
461 D(2) = D(1) + 1 month = Mar 28
462 ...
463 The new behavior is:
465 D(0) = Jan 31
467 D(1) = D(0) + 1*(1 month) = Feb 28
468 D(2) = D(0) + 2*(1 month) = Mar 31
469 ...
470 Previously, if a base date were not specified, it was not
472 determined from the date range. Now, the start date of the date
473 range acts as the base date.
474 The meaning of the base date has changed slightly. It is much more
476 meaningful and useful now.
477 Added iterator functions. Daniel LaLiberte
479 The RecurNumFudgeDays variable is no longer used and is deprecated.
481 Time zone fixes
483 Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2010o)
484
486 (*) Date::Manip 5.xx fully integrated with 6.xx
487 Date::Manip 5.xx and 6.xx are both installed automatically, and the
488 correct one will be chosen.
489 Bug fixes
491 Fixed a bug where recurrence handling was broken. RT 62128
492 Documentation fixes
494 A lot of documentation was cleaned up to be easier to read, and
495 better organized.
496
498 New features
499 Added the input methods to Date::Manip::Date and
500 Date::Manip::Delta. Ed Avis.
501 The 'date +%z' command will also be used to determine the timezone.
503 Oliver Schulze
504 Bug fixes
506 Several changes to try to get rid of a memory leaks reported in RT
507 54937. Huge thanks to BrowserUK on perlmonks for help.
508 Unfortunately, it ended up being a bug in perl, and will only be
509 resolved when that bug is fixed. See the Date::Manip::Problems
510 document for more information.
511 Reorganized Base/TZ to get rid of circular references.
513 Added end blocks to clean some global variables.
514 Got rid of switch/given structures.
515 Fixed a bug where an incomplete date with 'last' in it was causing
517 an error. RT 60138
518 Fixed a bug where 'Sunday, 9th Jan 1972' wasn't parsed correctly.
520 RT 57832
521 Time zone fixes
523 Fixed a bug where Zones.pm was generated with the abbreviations in
524 the wrong order. Amish Chana.
525 Language fixes
527 French month abbreviations now support periods. Bernard Haerri
528 Test fixes
530 Added tests from RT 29655 to make sure that the problem never
531 recurs.
532 Documentation fixes
534 Fixed documentation problem with the new_* methods in
535 Date::Manip::Obj. Options must be passed in as \@opts rather than
536 @opts.
537 Cleaned up some of the documentation.
539
541 (!) IntCharSet config variable deprecated
542 With better support for international character sets, the old
543 IntCharSet config variable (which was a bandaid at best) is
544 deprecated. Currently, the functionality still exists, but it will
545 be removed at some point.
546 New features
548 Added the Encoding config variable.
549 Now supports parsing the EXIF date format. Rhesa Rozendaal
551 Bug fixes
553 Fixed Build.PL to not require perl 5.010 since the distribution as
554 a whole does not require that (and I want that fact to be in
555 META.yml).
556 Fixed a bug where the Date::Manip::Date::set method was broken when
558 setting individual fields. Helmut A. Bender
559 Fixed a bug where set didn't work in Date::Manip::Delta. Patch
561 provided in RT 59096.
562 Time zone fixes
564 Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2010m)
565 Language fixes
567 (*) Converted all language files to UTF-8 and added rudimentary
568 support for character encodings. Some assistance by Stephen
569 Ostermiller.
570 Fixed problem in Polish, Dutch. Stephen Ostermiller
572 Extended support for 'nth' up to 53rd. Paco Regodon
574 Added some corrections to German. Dieter Lange
576 Documentation fixes
578 Clarified Date::Manip::Recur documentation based on RT 59132.
579
581 Bug fixes
582 Fixed a problem in Build.PL that had an incorrect module
583 requirement.
584
586 (*) Combined 5.xx and 6.xx releases into one distribution
587 Because the automatic module management tools cpan/cpanp would try
588 to upgrade Date::Manip to the most recent version, and the most
589 recent version will only work if perl 5.10.0 or higher is
590 installed, both the 5.xx and 6.xx releases are now combined into a
591 single distribution.
592 This is described more fully in the Date::Manip::Problems document.
594 (!) Zones specified by offset
596 In all operations involving time zones, the time zone must be
597 determined. By default, it would take all of the information
598 available (date, ISDST, etc.) and determine the most likely time
599 zone. It would take every time zone that matched each piece of
600 information, starting with those that matched in a standard time
601 followed by those that matched in a daylight saving time.
602 When zones are specified by an offset, a standard time would always
604 match since there are standard time zones that match all year long
605 (the military time zones A-Z and the standard time zones of the
606 form Etc/GMT+01). As a result, a daylight saving time match would
607 never occur.
608 Since (if the date falls during a daylight saving time period) you
610 usually want to use a time zone that has that offset in daylight
611 saving time, the default is now to check daylight saving time zones
612 first, followed by standard times.
613 See the Date::Manip::TZ manual (under the zone method) for more
615 information.
616 Bug fixes
618 Fixed a bug where Date_ConvTZ not working correctly with time zones
619 specified by offset. Chris Butler
620 Fixed a bug where business mode calculations involving minutes was
622 not handled correctly. Damien Moore
623 Fixed a bug where business mode calculations failed in some cases.
625 RT 56638
626 Time zone fixes
628 Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2010i)
629 Changed Date::Manip::TZ::zone so "dst" is sometimes the default
631 $dstflag. Based on the bug report by Chris Butler.
632 OpenUNIX puts a colon at the start of some time zones. It's
634 removed. Jean Hassler
635 Test fixes
637 Converted tests to Test::Inter
638 Documentation fixes
640 Fixed a documentation bug in Date::Manip::TZ where "stdonly" was
641 listed as the default value for $dstflag, but in actuality, "std"
642 is the default.
643
645 Bug fixes
646 Fixed bug in Date_TimeZone where it wasn't returning the time zone.
647 Robert Eden
648
650 Bug fixes
651 Minor bug where %Z printf format didn't always work.
652 Added support for 5pm back in (it was omitted accidentally). Mark
654 Kennedy
655 Fixed a minor warning. Morten Bjoernsvik
657 Some additional speedups.
659 Time zone fixes
661 Newest zoneinfo data (tzdata 2010b)
662 Added dm_zdump example script.
664 Improved TZ::periods functionality
666 Fixed bug in Date_ConvTZ where empty values weren't defaulting to
668 local time zone. Robert Eden
669 Fixed a couple of problems in the generated time zones for some odd
671 cases (America/Resolute and Asia/Tehran).
672
674 (!) %z format
675 In Date::Manip 5.xx, the %z format in UnixDate printed the offset
676 in the form -0500. In 6.00, I changed that to -05:00:00, but this
677 broke RFC 822 compliance.
678 I've changed %z back to -0500, and introduced a new format (%N)
680 which returns -05:00:00.
681 Incidentally, this is the LAST unused letter, so I am now going to
683 have to either stop adding formats, or add some extended format
684 syntax. Not sure yet which, but this may involve a backwards
685 incompatible change in the future.
686 (*) Significant speedups.
688 Thanks to Moritz Lenz and BrowserUK on perlmonks for suggestions
689 (and a number of other people on perlmonks for suggestions that I
690 did not end up using, but which provided a great discussion).
691 Bug fixes
693 Fixed a bug in parse_date where the current time was getting used
694 instead of the documented 00:00:00
695 Bug fix where DateCalc didn't work with $mode in some cases.
697 Fixed Makefile.PL/Build.PL to handle Win32::TieRegistry
699 requirement.
700 Changed %z printf behavior back to 5.xx and added %N format. Gilles
702 Lamiral
703 Added dm_date example script.
705 Time zone fixes
707 Fixed bug where non-English Windows versions didn't get the time
708 zone. Thanks to Rene Schickbauer for testing.
709 Test fixes
711 Reduced the precision of 1 test to avoid a rounding difference when
712 using a perl compiled with uselongdouble. Andreas Koenig
713
715 Bug fixes
716 Fixed a bug where events were not interpreted in the correct time
717 zone if SetDate/ForceDate used.
718
720 Bug fixes
721 Corrects a backward incompatibility with UnixDate. Rene Schickbauer
722 Test fixes
724 A couple more corrections to the tests.
725
727 Bug fixes
728 Disabled curr_zone_methods when taint checking on. I believe that
729 Date::Manip is completely taint friendly at this point.
730 Test fixes
732 A quick fix to make sure that the tests run correctly in other time
733 zones.
734
736 Bug fixes
737 (*) Fixed a bug where dates were sometimes getting the wrong time
738 zone when SetDate/ForceDate in effect.
739
741 Date::Manip 6.00 is a total rethink of the module, and a nearly
742 complete rewrite. Please refer to the Date::Manip::Changes5to6 document
743 for a list of incompatible changes.
744 Reorganization
746 (*) Massive reorganization and near total rewrite.
747 (*) Broke into several smaller modules
749 New Features
751 (*) Full time zone support (using tzdata 2009s)
752 Added some functionality (suggested by James Elson to improve
754 setting the "current time". Done with the ForceDate config
755 variable.
756 (*) Converted languages to YAML for much easier maintenance. Patch
758 and suggestion provided by Evan Carroll
759 Added much better formats for deltas. Suggested by Jim Hranicky.
761 Borrowed the _FindWindowsTZName function from the DateTime-TimeZone
763 module.
764 Added SetDate config variable (based on a suggestion by Christian
766 Campbell).
767 Added parse_format which was first suggested by Kim Ryan.
769 Other changes
771 Several config variables deprecated
772 Thanks to Jonathan Hogue for helping test Windows additions.
774 Bug fixes (correcting problems in the 5.xx releases)
776 Fixed a bug where "YYtoYYYY=c" wouldn't work.
777 VMS bugfix to not call `date` command. Lane
779 New Year's Day defined using a recurrence which might push the
781 observed day to the previous year was broken. Reported by Jerry
782 Wilcox.
783 Language fixes
785 Fixed typo in Turkish translation.
786 Spelling fix in Dutch. Bart Van Loon
788 Additional credits
790 I have received many suggestions over time which were automatically
791 handled during the 6.00 rewrite. Although the changes weren't made
792 because of the suggestions specifically, I wanted to acknowledge
793 them since I appreciate the suggestions.
794 I believe the first person to suggest writing Date::Manip as an OO
796 module was Eduard Derksen.
797 Delta_Format initialization done outside of the function. Eric
799 Boehm
800 Added $subtract to calculation routines. First suggested by Steve
802 Berlage.
803 Added ability to set individual parts of the date
805 (Date::Manip::Date::set). First suggested by Martin Thurn.
806 UnixDate (i.e. Date::Manip::Date::printf) only calculates formats
808 when they are needed. Eduard Derksen
809 Parsing will skip some date/time formats if requested. This was
811 first suggested by Eduard Derksen.
812 It has been suggested several times to support multiple languages,
814 multiple config files, or multiple sets of Date_Init options. These
815 suggestions (by Meng Fang, Ed Avis, Christian Campbell, and perhaps
816 others) were at the back of my mind as I developed the
817 Date::Manip::Base class.
818 The regular expressions are all i18n friendly in anticipation of
820 much better support for localization. First suggested by Alex
821 Kapranoff.
822 Parsing a date ('today', 'Monday') gives a time of '00:00:00'.
824 Suggested by Mark Aitchison.
825 Working with fractional days was suggested by Peter van Hardenberg.
827 This is implemented in Date::Manip::Base::day_of_year method.
828
830 Please refer to the Date::Manip::Problems documentation for information
831 on submitting bug reports or questions to the author.
832
834 Date::Manip - main module documentation
835
837 This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
838 under the same terms as Perl itself.
839
841 Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org)
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