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NAME

6       Date::Manip::Changes5 - changes in Date::Manip 5.xx
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SYNOPSIS

9       This describes the changes made to the Date::Manip module up to the
10       time that 6.00 was released.  Because 6.00 required a newer version of
11       perl (5.10 or higher), the old version was maintained.
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13       When Date::Manip 6.10 was released, both versions were bundled together
14       (though how it was bundled changed when 6.14 was released).
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16       This document describes all changes made to the old version of
17       Date::Manip.
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19       For the most part, Date::Manip has remained backward compatible at
20       every release, but occasionally, a change is made which is backward
21       incompatible. These are marked with an exclamation mark (!).
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VERSION 5.66 (Released with 6.51)

24       Fixed a bug in Date_ConvTZ
25           Applied a patch supplied by Zhenyi Zhou which fixes a bug in
26           Date_ConvTZ where passing in an empty string did not work.
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VERSION 5.65 (Released with 6.37)

29       As of December 2012, Version 5 of Date::Manip will no longer be
30       modified.  The 5.xx version was updated to 5.65 (but no changes were
31       made), and this version is expected to be the final release in the 5.xx
32       series.
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34       The one exception is that if someone submits a patch that applies
35       cleanly and causes zero failures in the test suite, I will consider
36       adding it on a case-by-cast bases.
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38       Please use Date::Manip 6.xx instead.
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VERSION 5.64 (Released with 6.32)

41       Better handling of '0000' timezone
42           Applied a patch supplied by Ed Avis that improves handling of the
43           '0000' timezone..
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VERSION 5.63 (Released with 6.26)

46       Fixed business mode calculation
47           Applied a patch that I received some time ago to fix a business
48           mode calculation.  Steve Tempest
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VERSION 5.62 (Released with 6.21)

51       No changes
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VERSION 5.61 (Released with 6.20)

54       No changes
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VERSION 5.60 (Released with 6.14)

57       Fully integrated with 6.xx
58           As of Date::Manip 6.14, the 5.xx release is fully integrated into
59           the distribution. Both will be installed automatically and you can
60           switch between them (if you have a recent version of perl). This
61           simplifies the package management process considerably. The
62           downside is that Date::Manip 6.xx will be installed, even if you do
63           not have a recent version of perl and cannot use it.
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VERSION 5.59 (Released with 6.12)

66       Test fixes
67           Fix tests to work better on windows.
68

VERSION 5.58 (Released with 6.11)

70       Test fixes
71           Fixed a bug in some of the tests that were causing two tests to
72           fail.  JD
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74           Explicitly set TZ in all tests to avoid some failures (it got left
75           out of a few when it was bundled with 6.10).
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VERSION 5.57 (Released with 6.10)

78       (*) Combined 5.xx and 6.xx
79           As of 6.10, Date-Manip-6.xx will contain both the Date::Manip 5.xx
80           and 6.xx modules. If perl 5.10 or higher is available, the 6.xx
81           version will be installed. For older versions of perl, the 5.xx
82           version will be installed.
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84           This will allow all of the automatic module tools to work
85           correctly.
86
87       Bug fixes
88           Fixed a bug where years earlier than 1000 AD failed in
89           calculations.  John
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91       Time zone fixes
92           Improved time zone detection.  Stepan Kasal
93
94       Documentation fixes
95           Minor improvements.  Josef Kreulich
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VERSION 5.56 (2010-02-24)

98       Bug fixes
99           Date_PrevWorkDay and documentation fix.  RT #17005
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101           I accidentally included a require 5.10 which made Date::Manip not
102           work with earlier versions of perl.  Nicholas Riley
103

VERSION 5.55 (2010-02-22)

105       (*) Added time zone abbreviations
106           Date::Manip 5.xx now includes all of the time zone abbreviations
107           from version 6.xx (i.e. all of the abbreviations from the Olsen
108           database).
109
110       Documentation fixes
111           Typo fix.  ddascalescu
112

VERSION 5.54 (2008-05-09)

114       Released
115

VERSION 5.53 (DEVELOPMENT)

117       Bug fixes
118           Fix so it won't fail with "Too early to specify a build action"
119
120       CPANTS changes
121           Final changes to meet requirements on http://cpants.perl.org/
122

VERSION 5.52 (2008-05-08)

124       Released
125

VERSION 5.51 (DEVELOPMENT)

127       Bug fixes
128           Fixed bug where the wrong version was in Build.PL
129
130       CPANTS changes
131           Additional changes to meet requirements on http://cpants.perl.org/
132

VERSION 5.50 (2008-05-05)

134       Released
135

VERSION 5.49 (DEVELOPMENT)

137       New features
138           Added "ereyesterday".  Ed Avis
139
140       Time zone fixes
141           Added time zones.  Damyan Ivanov, Ernesto Hernandez-Novich, Gregor
142           Herrmann, Nicholas Riley, Enrique Verdes, Alexander Litvinov
143
144       Documentation fixes
145           Corrected typo in %G and %L format descriptions.  Troy A. Bollinger
146
147       CPANTS changes
148           Added Build.PL and several other things to meet requirements on
149           http://cpants.perl.org/
150

VERSION 5.48 (2007-11-27)

152       Released
153

VERSION 5.47 (DEVELOPMENT)

155       Bug fixes
156           Fixed the version number.  John R. Daily
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158           Fixed a warning when the date command not present.  Daniel Hahler
159
160           Fixed a bug where recurrences of the form 0:1*, 0:0:1*, etc.,
161           incorrectly required a base date.  Gerry Lawrence
162
163           Fixed a bug where "substring" was used instead of "substr".
164
165       Time zone fixes
166           Fixed a problem in the WEST time zone.  Cristina Nunes
167
168           Added time zone.  Kimmo R. M. Hovi
169
170       Documentation fixes
171           Revised some of the documentation about Y2K (given that it's in the
172           past) and the 2007 US daylight saving time rule changes.
173

VERSION 5.46 (2007-02-21)

175       Released
176

VERSION 5.45 (DEVELOPMENT)

178       New features
179           Added "overmorrow".  Ed Avis
180
181       Bug fixes
182           Fixed bug in parsing ISO 8601 dates.  Paul Schinder
183
184           Fixed a bug in UnixDate for years before 1000 AD.  Joaquin Ferrero
185
186           Fixed a bug where "today" wasn't case insensitive.  Pedro Rodrigues
187
188           Fixed a bug where business/approximate mode wasn't correctly used
189           in DateCalc.  Mark T. Kennedy
190
191           Bug in DateCalc where you couldn't pass undef as the errref.  Alex
192           Howansky
193
194           Bug where cygwin wasn't using the date command.  Rafael Kitover
195
196       Time zone fixes
197           New time zones.  Khairil Yusof, Andy Spiegel, Ernesto Rapetti
198
199           New time zones.  Robin Norwood
200
201           Fixed Russian time zones.  Yuri Kovalenko
202
203       Language fixes
204           Language fix for Danish.  Claus Rasmussen
205
206           Language fix for German.  Andreas Dembach
207
208       Documentation fixes
209           Minor documentation improvement.  Caminati Carlo
210
211           Lots of spelling fixes.  Asaf Bartov
212

VERSION 5.44 (2005-06-02)

214       Released
215

VERSION 5.43 (DEVELOPMENT)

217       (!) (*) Recurrences revisited
218           The behavior of some elements of recurrences changed. These
219           included making the week element (N) refer to the Nth occurrence of
220           a day of the week in the week, month, or year. It is now possible
221           to look at the 3rd Friday of every month for example.
222
223           Y-0-WOY-DOW now refers to the WOY'th occurrence of DOW instead of
224           the ISO 8601 date Y-W(WOY)-DOY. Also, changed Y-0-WOY-0 to refer to
225           the WOY'th occurrence of FirstDay, and got rid of the MW and MD
226           flags. Many other similar changes.
227
228       (!) Changed %x format in UnixDate
229           The %x format used to be equivalent to %D (%m/%d/%y), but it has
230           been modified to use the DateFormat config variable, so it may
231           return %d/%m/%y if a non-US DateFormat is specified.
232
233       New features
234           Added TodayIsMidnight.  Reuben Thomas
235
236           Added "approx" mode to Delta_Format and reversed change to default
237           Delta_Format behavior to the one from version 5.40.  Based on
238           discussion with Adam Spiers.
239
240           Added %O UnixDate format.  Martin Thurn
241
242       Bug fixes
243           Fixed a bug is ParseRecur where values passed in were no overriding
244           old values in the recurrence.  Scott Barker (reported to the Debian
245           bugs list).
246
247           Fix for a potential problem in the "0000" time zone.  Ed Avis
248
249           Changed taint check to be the one in perlsec(1).  Max Kalika
250
251           Minor fix so DateInit("VAR=") will work.  Thomas Bohme
252
253           Fixed a bug where business mode was kept operative even after the
254           calculation was over.  Emiliano Bruni
255
256           Minor change to run under cygwin.  Niel Markwick
257
258           Minor VMS fix.  Martin P.J. Zinser
259
260           Small fix to taint checking.  David Worenklein
261
262           Fixed a problem where deltas were getting misinterpreted as dates.
263            Harry Zhu
264
265           Fixed a bug in ParseRecur where "last day of every March" couldn't
266           be done.  Andras Karacsony
267
268           Fixed a bug in business mode calculations.  Tracy L Sanders
269
270           Sorted all events and dates returned by Events_List.  This fixes
271           problems with tests on some versions of perl.  Tulan
272
273           Modified %x UnixDate format to use DateFormat config variable.
274           Matt Lyons
275
276       Time zone fixes
277           Fixed a problem with single character military time zones (T and W)
278           conflicting with ISO 8601 T and W dates.  Hugo Cornelis
279
280           Small correction to Brazil time zones.  John McDonald
281
282           Added time zones.  Michael Wood-Vasey, Don Robertson, Michael D.
283           Setzer II, Andres Tarallo
284
285       Language fixes
286           Fixed German translations.  Oliver Scheit
287
288           Minor corrections to Italian.  Nicola Pedrozzi
289
290           Added the language Catalan.  Xavi Drudis
291
292       Documentation fixes
293           Minor doc fixes  Reuben Thomas, Ed Avis, Thomas Winzig
294
295           Clarified documentation on %W/%G/%U/%L formats.  Joel Savignon
296

VERSION 5.42a 2003-07-03

298       Test fixes
299           A quick fix to replace a faulty test.
300

VERSION 5.42 (2003-07-02)

302       Released
303           Number changed to distinguish between the development release
304           (5.41) and the official release.
305

VERSION 5.41 (DEVELOPMENT)

307       As of 5.41, odd numbered releases are development (and appear only on
308       my page). Even number releases are official releases submitted to CPAN.
309
310       (!) Changed path separator for VMS
311           Since ":" is used in some VMS paths, it should not have been used
312           as the path separator.  It has been changed to a newline ("\n")
313           character.
314
315       (!) Delta_Format behavior changed
316           The entire delta is exact if no month component is present
317           (previously, no year or month component could be present).  Due to
318           discussion with Tim Turner.
319
320       Bug fixes
321           Small patch for OpenVMS.  Martin P.J. Zinser
322
323           Minor enhancement to ParseRecur.  Randy Harmon
324
325           Fixed a bug involving business deltas with negative hours.  Ludovic
326           Dubost
327
328           Added some support for NetWare.  Chris Shields
329
330           Applied some robustness patches.  Ed Avis
331
332           Fixed a bug with years <1000.  Jonathan Callahan
333
334           Patch to make Manip.pm -Mstrict clean and better VMS support.
335           Peter Prymmer
336
337           Fixed a bug in "1st Saturday of 2005" format.  Maurice Aubrey
338
339           Taint check insecure $ENV{PATH} fix.  Ed Avis
340
341           Patch to allow deltas of the form "+ -1 day" to work.  Ed Avis
342
343           Removed ampersands from function calls in documentation to fit new
344           perl coding standards.  Bill Pollock
345
346           Fixed a bug where spaces in a date caused problems in German (due
347           to the number 1st, 2nd, etc. being 1., 2., etc.).  Erik Roderwald
348
349       Time zone fixes
350           Minor bug fix where /etc/time zone not correctly read.  Jacek
351           Nowacki
352
353           Made the UnixDate %Z format work with numeric time zones.  Michael
354           Isard
355
356           Fixed bug where -HH:MM and +HH:MM were not being accepted as valid
357           time zones.  Hank Barta
358
359           Fixed a bug where time zones -HH:MM weren't handled in ISO 8601
360           dates.  Ed Avis
361
362           Added some help for VMS time zones.  Don Slutz
363
364           Added some checking to the time zone determination.  Ed Avis
365
366           Added time zones.  David Coppit, Daniel Serodio, Fabian Mandelbaum,
367           Raul Dias, Pedro Melo CUNHA, Roman Y Malakhov, David Whiting,
368           Khaled Mostaguir, Jason King
369
370       Language fixes
371           (*) Replaced all non-ASCII characters with hex representations to
372           avoid the malformed UTF-8 character warnings. Ed Avis
373
374           Added Russian translation.  Dapi
375
376           Additions to Dutch translation.  Willem
377
378           Patch to French support.  Patrick Turmel
379
380           Added Tues/Thur abbreviations. Martin Thurn
381
382           Added Turkish. Giray
383
384           Added Danish.  Jesper Dalberg
385              A patch for Danish was send by Jorgen Norgaard previously, and
386              I somehow overlooked it. I apologize for that.
387
388       Test fixes
389           Added runtests.bat contributed by Lon Amick
390
391       Documentation fixes
392           Minor doc fix.  Jeremy Tietsort
393
394           Fixed spelling of Veteran's day.  Dirk Eddelbuettel
395
396           Documentation improvements.  James Olsen
397

VERSION 5.40 (2001-06-07)

399       New features
400           Added support for negative values is "epoch SECS" type dates.
401           Larry Warner
402
403           Added NWD/PWD/DWD flags to ParseRecur.  Peter Wyngaard
404
405       Bug fixes
406           Fixed a warning.  Edward Avis
407
408           Fixed a bug where the date wasn't rolling over when parsing dates
409           containing only times.  James L. Gordon
410
411           Fixed a bug where some times were defaulting to the current time
412           instead of 00:00:00.  Edward Avis
413
414           Fixed a bug in Date_NthDayOfYear with decimal days.  Olga Polyakov
415
416           Fixed a bug where ParseDateDelta returned a delta if nothing was
417           passed in.  Jim Hranicky
418
419           Fixed a bug where noon was case sensitive.  Bion Pohl
420
421           Fixed a bug where dateTtime wasn't parsed.  Jeremy Brinkley
422
423           Fixed a bug in holiday parsing involving recurrences.  Jerry Wilcox
424
425           Fixed a bug where an invalid date passed to Date_IsWorkDay produced
426           an error message.  Mark Rejhon
427
428           Fixed a bug where EraseHolidays wasn't taking affect correctly.
429           Chateauvieux Martial
430
431           Fixed a bug where the list produced by Date_Init couldn't be passed
432           back in to Date_Init.  James Elson
433
434       Time zone fixes
435           Added `date +%Z` support in Date_TimeZone.  Mike Bristow
436
437           Fixed a warning if the time zone is supplied as a +HHMM format.
438           Viola Mauro
439
440           Fixed South African time zone.  David Sieborger
441
442       Documentation fixes
443           Added an example.  Philip Jones
444

VERSION 5.39 (2000-06-27)

446       Bug fixes
447           `date` uses the user's path unless taint checking is on.
448
449           @::DatePath used instead of @Date::Manip::DatePath incorrectly.
450           Fixed by John Labovitz.
451
452           Fixed a bug where times such as "5 seconds ago" were not changing
453           over time.  Matthew R. Sheahan
454
455       Time zone fixes
456           Added /etc/time zone support to &Date_TimeZone.  Dirk Eddelbuettel
457
458           Added time zones. Dirk Eddelbuettel, Eli Selinger
459

VERSION 5.38 (2000-05-23)

461       (*) Added Events
462           Added Events section to config file and Events_List routine.
463           Prompted by Greg Schiedler and paid for by Alan Cezar.
464
465       (!) Removed Date_DaysSince999
466           The Date_DaysSince999 function (deprecated in 5.35) has been
467           removed.
468
469       New features
470           Added support for ISO8601 dates of the format dateTtime.  Jason
471           Pierce
472
473           Got rid of the "use Cwd" and ENV{PATH} lines which means no more
474           taint problems.
475
476       Bug fixes
477           Fixed "dofw" format to return the day of the current week as
478           documented instead of next week.  Dennis Ingram
479
480           Fixed a bug where dates in years 1900, 1800, etc. (but not 2000 or
481           other 400th years) were off by one day in DayOfWeek.  Noble Thomas
482
483           Fixed a bug in ParseRecur (2-digit years not treated correctly).
484           Brian Rectanus
485
486       Time zone fixes
487           Added time zones.  Nelson Ferreira, David Harper
488
489       Documentation fixes
490           Fixed some typos.  Thanks to Alex Kapranoff
491
492           Typo fixed.  Jim Hranicky
493

VERSION 5.37 (2000-02-14)

495       Bug fixes
496           Set ENV{PATH} to help with taint checking.  Joe Lipson
497
498           Fixed a serious bug where HH:24:00 was broken due to support from
499           24:00:00.  Scott Egashira
500
501       Time zone fixes
502           Fixed the sign on the military time zones.  John Scott
503

VERSION 5.36 (2000-01-21)

505       New features
506           Added support for 24:00:00 to ParseDate.  William H Asquith
507
508       Bug fixes
509           Fixed a bug in ParseRecur. Lewis Tsao
510
511           Fixed a bug is UnixDate (%l format).  Jon Hedley
512
513           Fixed a bug in Date_GetNext/Prev.  Christoph Haas
514
515           Fixed a bug in Date_IsHoliday.  Report and patch by Rolf Beutner
516
517           Fixed a bug in UnixDate.  Patch by Kurtis D. Rader
518
519           Rewrote IsInt routine based on discussion with Sean Hunter
520           (approximately 30% faster on a SPARC).
521
522       Time zone fixes
523           Added time zone.  Paul Arzul
524
525       Documentation fixes
526           Fixed a documentation problem with Date_ConvTZ.  Diab Jerius
527

VERSION 5.35 (1999-07-06)

529       (!) Deprecated Date_DaysSince999
530           In fixing support for the years 0001-0999, I rewrote
531           Date_DaysSince999 to be Date_DaysSince1BC.  The Date_DaysSince999
532           function will be removed.
533
534       (*) (!) Added PathSep variable
535           In order to better support Win32 platforms, I added the PathSep
536           config variable.  This will allow the use of paths such as
537           "c:\date" on Win32 platforms.  Old config files on Win32 platforms
538           (which were not working correctly in many cases) may not work if
539           they contain path information to the personal config file.
540
541       (*) Recurrences now support flags
542           Flags for modifying recurrence dates are now supported.
543
544       (*) Improved holiday support considerably
545           Added support for recurrences and one-year-only holidays (the
546           latter requested first by Vishal Bhatia.
547
548       (*) Date_Init improved
549           Date_Init can now return a list of config variables if called in
550           array context.  Based on a suggestion by Matt Tuttle.
551
552       New features
553           Modified Date_GetPrev/Date_GetNext to take $curr=2.
554
555           Now parses the Apache log file format "dd/mmm/yyyy:hh:mm:ss (time
556           zone)".  Mark Ferguson
557
558           Added OS/2 support.  Michael B. Babakov
559
560           Added Date_IsHoliday routine.  Joe Pepin
561
562           Added recurrence support for Easter (first suggested by Abigail).
563
564       Bug fixes
565           Made "epoch" not case sensitive and fixed a bug where it would fail
566           in some languages.  Caught because of Iosif's thorough Romanian
567           test file.
568
569           Fixed a problem where "in 5 days/weeks/months" sometimes wouldn't
570           get correctly parsed in other languages.  Caught because of Iosif's
571           thorough Romanian test file.
572
573           Fixed a weakness in ParseDateDelta brought out by the Romanian
574           delta test file.
575
576           Fixed a bug causing warnings in the beta version of perl.  Patch by
577           Paul Johnson.
578
579           Fixed support for years 0000-0999.  Requested by Chris Vaughan
580
581           Several recurrence bug fixes.
582
583           Put all the my'ed global variables in a couple hashes to clean up
584           the namespace and to make a few future enhancements easier to do.
585
586           Fixed a bug where business weeks weren't being used correctly.
587           Qian Miao
588
589           Fixed a serious typo in the DaysSince1BC routine.  Qian Miao
590
591           Fixed Veteran's day, added Good Friday (off by default).  Peter
592           Chen
593
594           Cleaned up holiday variables and re-did holiday routines.
595
596       Time zone fixes
597           Added time zones.  Oded Cohen
598
599       Language fixes
600           Added Romanian support (including 2 test files).  Iosif Fettich
601
602           Corrected Swedish translations.  Danne Solli
603
604           Some fixes to German translations.  Peter Ehrenberg
605
606           Added Italian.  Nicola Pedrozzi
607
608       Test fixes
609           Added recurrence test suite
610
611       Documentation fixes
612           Several documentation updates.
613
614           New recurrence documentation.
615

VERSION 5.34 (1999-04-13)

617       (!) (*) All Date::Manip variables are no longer accessible
618           Previously, Date::Manip variables were declared using a full
619           package name.  Now, they are declared with the my() function.  This
620           means that internal variables are no longer accessible outside of
621           the module.  Based on suggestion by Tom Christiansen
622
623       (!) Week interpretation in business mode deltas
624           A business mode delta containing a week value used to be treated as
625           7 days.  A much more likely interpretation of a week is Monday to
626           Monday, regardless of holidays, so this is now the behavior.
627
628       (!) %z UnixDate format
629           The %z UnixDate format used to return the time zone abbreviation.
630           It now returns it as a GMT offset (i.e. -0500).  %Z still returns
631           the time zone abbreviation.  Suggested by Tuc.
632
633       (!) Formats "22nd Sunday" returns the intuitive value
634           The date "22nd Sunday" used to return the Sunday of the 22nd week
635           of the year (which could be the 21st, 22nd, or 23rd Sunday of the
636           year depending on how weeks were defined).  Now, it returns the
637           22nd Sunday of the year regardless.
638
639       (!) Separator in DD/YYmmm and mmmDD/YY formats no longer optional
640           Previously, the date "Dec1065" would return Dec 10, 1965.  After
641           adding the YYYYmmm and mmmYYYY formats, this was no longer
642           possible.  The separator between DD and YY is no longer optional,
643           so
644
645              Dec1065     returns December 1, 1065
646              Dec10/65    returns December 10, 1965
647
648       (*) Date_Cmp added
649           In one of the next versions of Date::Manip, the internal format of
650           the date will change to include time zone information.  All date
651           comparisons should be made using Date_Cmp (which currently does
652           nothing more than call the Perl "cmp" command, but which will
653           important when comparing dates that include the time zone).
654
655           Added now in response to a question by Al Sorrell (I should have
656           added it earlier).
657
658       New features
659           Added exact business mode.  Ian Duplisse
660
661           Added "mmmYYYY" and "YYYYmmm" formats.  As a result, "DDYYmmm" and
662           "mmmDDYY" formats changed to "DD/YYmmm" and "mmmDD/YY" as described
663           above.  David Twomey
664
665       Bug fixes
666           Fixed a bug where a date passed in as an array wasn't getting the
667           date removed from the array.  Rick Wise
668
669           Added tests for MPE/iX OS.  John Testa
670
671           Fixed a bug where WorkDayBeg=8:00 went into an infinite loop.  Mark
672           Martinec
673
674           Changed a business week to be the same as an exact week.  Abigail
675
676           Fixed a bug where "Sunday week 0" didn't work (only affected week
677           0) Gerald Rinske
678
679           Minor bug (my variable declared twice).  Paul J. Schinder
680
681           Fixed a bug where "epoch SECONDS" was getting parsed wrong (for
682           SECONDS which could be interpreted as an ISO-8601 date).  N. Thomas
683
684           Fixed a problem where init files were not being read.  Mike Reetz
685
686       Time zone fixes
687           At the request of the UN, I added the SAT time zone.  :-) Howard
688           Hendler
689
690           Fixed a bug where time zones were converted multiple times if
691           ConvTZ was set and DateCalc called.  Steven Hartland
692
693       Language fixes
694           Added Portuguese.  Rui Pedro da Silva Leite Pereira
695
696       Documentation fixes
697           A number of typos fixed.  Ron Pero
698

VERSION 5.33 (1998-08-20)

700       Bug fixes
701           Fixed a bug where "1 month ago" was no longer working (and added it
702           to the test cases).  This broke when I fixed the "-1second" bug in
703           the previous version.  A result of this is that a number of
704           "deltas" can be parsed as dates (i.e. &ParseDate("1 hour 20 minutes
705           ago") is equivalent to &DateCalc("now","1 hour 20 minutes ago")).
706           Only text deltas can be used in this way (i.e.
707           &ParseDate("-0:0:0:0:1:20:0") will not work).
708
709       Language fixes
710           Added Spanish support.  Bautista Jasso Javier
711

VERSION 5.32 (1998-08-17)

713       (!) Date_Init arguments
714           The old style Date_Init arguments that were deprecated in version
715           5.07 have been removed.
716
717       (!) (*) DateManip.cnf change
718           Changed .DateManip.cnf to Manip.cnf (to get rid of problems on OS's
719           that insist on 8.3 filenames) for all non-Unix platforms (Windows,
720           VMS, Mac).  For all Unix platforms, it's still .DateManip.cnf .  It
721           will only look in the user's home directory on VMS and Unix.
722
723       New features
724           Added "in N days" and "N days ago" formats.  Tony Bowden.
725
726           Added cYYYY format to YYtoYYYY variable.  Mark Rejhon.
727
728           Added 2 days/weeks/months later in both ParseDate and ParseDelta
729           (for Dutch support).  Abigail.
730
731           Added "Y:M:0*-DOM:0:0:0" to ParseRecur.  Jeff Yoak.
732
733       Bug fixes
734           Fixed a bug where the deltas could be off by up to a couple minutes
735           in some rare cases.  Herman Horsten.
736
737           Fixed an "uninitialized symbol" warning.  Mark D. Anderson.
738
739           Fixed a bug where holidays weren't erased.  Jonathan Wright.
740
741           Applied a bug fix from Joe Chapman where the %W/%U UnixDate formats
742           were frequently wrong.
743
744           Several minor fixes and improvements.  Abigail.
745
746           Added some VMS support.  Charles Lane.
747
748           Fixed a bug which caused a test to fail on some systems.  Charles
749           Lane.
750
751           Fixed a bug where "-1second" was treated as a date rather than a
752           delta in DateCalc.  Kenneth Ingham
753
754           Added a bit to the Makefile.PL (as it was distributed in the Win32
755           Perl Resource Kit).  Murray Nesbitt
756
757       Time zone fixes
758           Allowed time zones of the format STD-#DST-#.  Peter Gordon.
759
760           Added time zone support for "+0500 (EST)".  Tom Christiansen.
761
762           Restricted time zones parsing to 0000-2359 instead of 0000-9999.
763           Frank Cusack
764
765           Added time zones.  W. Phillip Moore, Michael Smith, Samuli
766           Karkkainen
767
768       Language fixes
769           Added Polish support.  Ian Wojtowicz.
770
771           Added Dutch support.  Abigail.
772
773           Added A.M. and P.M. parsing (not just AM and PM).  William W.
774           Arnold.
775
776           Fixed a German initialization problem.  Thomas Horster-Moller and
777           Christian Reithmaier
778
779       Documentation fixes
780           Documentation fix.  Peter Gordon.
781
782           Minor documentation changes.  Yamamoto Hiroshi.
783
784           Added info about the RCS problem.  Supplied by Kipp E. Howard.
785

VERSION 5.31 (1998-04-08)

787       New features
788           Added "epoch SECS" format to ParseDateString.  Thanks to: Joshua M.
789           Burgin.
790
791           Added a patch by Blair Zajac to make Date_NthDayOfYear work with
792           decimal days.
793
794       Bug fixes
795           Fixed a bug in ParseDateDelta (seems to appear only in 5.005 pre-
796           releases).  Found by Larry W. Virden.
797
798           Missed one form in ParseDate.  Noted by Tuc.
799
800           Fixed a bug where "15:00:00" couldn't be parsed.  Michael Pizolato.
801
802           Split Manip.pm.  New files are HISTORY, TODO, Manip.pod.
803
804           Fixed a bug in ParseDateDelta.  Antonio Rosella.
805
806           Removed the only occurrence of $& (which may speed some things up).
807           Fix by Ken Williams.  First suggested by Abigail.
808
809           Fixed an overflow bug in doing date calculations with 2 dates more
810           than 70 years apart.  Fix by Vishal Bhatia.
811
812           Fixed a bug where "5:00pm" wasn't always parsed correctly.  Thanks
813           to Jim Trocki.
814
815           Fixed a bug in UnixDate (it wouldn't return the correct string for
816           a format who's last character was '0') noted by Ramin V.
817
818       Time zone fixes
819           Relaxed some restrictions on time zones so ISO-8601 dates can use
820           non-ISO-8601 time zones.  Noted by John Chambers.
821
822           Fixed a bug in converting time zones with a minutes field (+1030).
823           Found by Paul O.
824
825       Language fixes
826           Some fixes to the French translations by Emmanuel Bataille.
827
828           Added German support.  Thanks to Andreas C. Poszvek.
829
830       Documentation fixes
831           Minor documentation fixes.  Will Linden.
832
833           Fixed a documentation problem with Date_GetPrev.  It was still 0-6
834           instead of 1-7.  Thanks to Robert Klep.
835

VERSION 5.30 (1998-01-21)

837       (!) (*) Delta format changed
838           A week field has been added to the internal format of the delta.
839           It now reads "Y:M:W:D:H:MN:S" instead of "Y:M:D:H:MN:S".
840
841       (*) Now handles recurring events
842           Added ParseRecur.  First suggested by Chris Jackson.
843
844       New features
845           All routines can now take either a 2- or 4-digit year.
846
847           Added Delta_Format.  First suggested by Alan Burlison.
848
849           Added Date_SetDateField.  Thanks to Martin Thurn.
850
851       Bug fixes
852           Made the $err argument to DateCalc optional.
853
854           Changed the name of several of the library routines (not the
855           callable ones) to standardize naming.
856

VERSION 5.21 (1998-01-15)

858       (!) Long running processes may give incorrect time zone
859           A process that runs during a time zone change (Daylight Saving Time
860           specifically) may report the wrong time zone.  See the UpdateCurrTZ
861           variable for more information.
862
863       (!) UnixDate "%J", "%W", and "%U" formats fixed
864           The %J, %W, and %U will no longer report a week 0 or a week 53 if
865           it should really be week 1 of the following year.  They now report
866           the correct week number according to ISO 8601.
867
868       New features
869           Added YYtoYYYY variable.  Suggested by Michel van der List.
870
871           Added the UpdateCurrTZ variable to increase speed at the cost of
872           being wrong on the time zone.
873
874           Added British date formats.  Thanks to Piran Montford.
875              Monday week
876              today week
877              as well as some US formats
878              in 2 months
879              next month
880
881           Time can now be written 5pm.  Piran Montford.
882
883           Added the TomorrowFirst variable and Date_NearestWorkDay function.
884
885           Added UnixDate formats %G and %L to correctly handle the year.
886           Thanks to Samuli Karkkainen.
887
888           Added ForceDate variable. Based on a suggestion by Christian
889           Campbell.
890
891       Bug fixes
892           Now passes Taint checks.  Thanks to Mike Fuhr, Ron E. Nelson, and
893           Jason L Tibbitts III.
894
895           Put everything in a "use integer" pragma.
896
897           Added a missing space in the %g UnixDate format.  Thanks to Mike
898           Booth.
899
900           Removed all mandatory call to Date_Init (only called when current
901           time is required).  Significantly faster.
902
903           Fixed a bug in Date_ConvTZ.  Thanks to Patrick K Malone.
904
905           Fixed a bug in Date_IsWorkDay.
906
907       Time zone fixes
908           Fixed some Australian time zones.  Kim Davies.
909
910       Language fixes
911           Cleaned up multi-lingual initialization and added the IntCharSet
912           variable.
913
914           Improved French translations.  Thanks to Emmanuel Bataille.
915
916           Added "Sept" as a recognized abbreviation.  Thanks to Martin Thurn.
917
918           Typo in the French initialization.  Thanks to Michel Minsoul.
919
920       Test fixes
921           Fixed the tests to not fail in 1998.
922
923       Documentation fixes
924           Documented how to get around Micro$oft problem.  Based on a mail by
925           Patrick Stepp.
926

VERSION 5.20 (1997-10-12)

928       (*) ISO 8601 support
929           ISO 8601 dates are now parsed. This resulted in several other
930           changes specified below.
931
932       (!) (*) ParseDate formats removed
933           As a result of ISO 8601 support, some formats which previously
934           worked may no longer be parsed since they conflict with an ISO 8601
935           format.  These include MM-DD-YY (conflicts with YY-MM-DD) and
936           YYMMDD (conflicts with YYYYMM).  MM/DD/YY still works, so the first
937           form can be kept easily by changing "-" to "/".  YYMMDD can be
938           changed to YY-MM-DD before being parsed.  Whenever parsing dates
939           using dashes as separators, they will be treated as ISO 8601 dates.
940           You can get around this by converting all dashes to slashes.
941
942       (!) (*) Week day numbering
943           The day numbering was changed from 0-6 (Sun-Sat) to 1-7 (Mon-Sun)
944           to be ISO 8601 compatible.  Weeks start on Monday (though this can
945           be overridden using the FirstDay config variable) and the 1st week
946           of the year contains Jan 4 (though it can be forced to contain Jan
947           1 with the Jan1Week1 config variable).
948
949       New features
950           Several new parsing formats added, including:
951              "Friday"             suggested by Rob Perelman
952              "12th"               suggested by Rob Perelman
953              "last day of MONTH"  suggested by Chadd Westhoff
954
955           Added ParseDateString for speed (and simplicity for modifying
956           ParseDate)
957
958           Added %J and %K formats to UnixDate.
959
960           Added Date_DaysInMonth.
961
962       Bug fixes
963           Reorganized ParseDate more efficiently.
964
965           Fixed some incorrect uses of $in instead of $future in ParseDate.
966           Thanks to Erik Corry.
967
968           Added some speedups (more to come).
969
970       Test fixes
971           Cleaned up testing mechanism a bit and added tests for ISO 8601
972           formats.
973

VERSION 5.11 (1997-08-07)

975       Version 5.11 was never released to CPAN.
976
977       Bug fixes
978           Added one more check for NT perl.  Thanks to Rodney Haywood.
979
980           Added some comments to help me keep my personal libraries up-to-
981           date with respect to Date::Manip and vice-versa.
982
983           Fixed a bug which showed up in French dates (though it could happen
984           in other languages as well).  Thanks to Georges Martin.
985
986           Fixed a bug in DateCalc.  Thanks to Thomas Winzig.
987
988           Removed the "eval" statement from CheckFilePath which causes a suid
989           c wrapper program to die when it calls a Date::Manip script.
990           Thanks to Hank Hughes.
991
992           Fixed a bug in business mode calculations.  Thanks to Sterling
993           Swartwout.
994
995           Fixed a bug in which "1997023100:00:00" was accepted as valid.
996           Thanks to Doug Emerald.
997
998           Fixed a bug in which ConvTZ was not used correctly in ParseDate.
999           Re-did portions of Date_ConvTZ.  Thanks to Vivek Khera.
1000
1001           Fixed a bug in business mode calculations.  Thanks to Ian Duplisse.
1002
1003           Added $^X check for Win95 perl.  Thanks to Walter Soldierer.
1004
1005           Missed one call to NormalizeDelta so the output was wrong.  Thanks
1006           to Brad A. Buikema.
1007
1008       Time zone fixes
1009           Added time zones.  Paul Gillingwater, Rosella Antonio, Kang Taewook
1010

VERSION 5.10 (1997-03-19)

1012       Bug fixes
1013           Cleaned up In, At, and On regexps.
1014
1015           Added 2 checks for MSWin32 (date command and getpw* didn't work).
1016           Thanks to Alan Humphrey.
1017
1018           Fixed two bugs in the DateCalc routines.  Pointed out by Kevin
1019           Baker.
1020
1021           Added a check for Windows_95.  Thanks to Charlie W.
1022
1023           Cleaned up checks for MacOS and Microsoft OS's.  Hopefully I'm
1024           catching everything.  Thanks to Charlie Wu for one more check.
1025
1026           Fixed a typo which broke Time%Date (Date=dd%mmm%yy) format.  Thanks
1027           to Timothy Kimball.
1028
1029       Time zone fixes
1030           Fixed some problems with how "US/Eastern" type time zones were
1031           used.  Thanks to Marvin Solomon.
1032
1033       Test fixes
1034           Tests will now run regardless of the time zone you are in.
1035
1036           Test will always read the DateManip.cnf file in t/ now.
1037
1038           A failed test will now give slightly more information.
1039
1040           DateManip.cnf file in t/ now sets ALL options to override any
1041           changes made in the Manip.pm file.
1042
1043       Documentation fixes
1044           Added documentation for backwards incompatibilities to POD.
1045
1046           Fixed some problems in POD documentation.  Thanks to Marvin
1047           Solomon.
1048
1049           Fixed minor POD error pointed out by John Perkins.
1050
1051           Changed documentation for Date_IsWorkDay (it was quite confusing
1052           using a variable named $time).  Thanks to Erik M. Schwartz.
1053
1054           Fixed typo in documentation (midnight misspelled).  Thanks to
1055           Timothy Kimball.
1056

VERSION 5.09 (1997-01-28)

1058       Bug fixes
1059           Upgraded to 5.003_23 and fixed one problem associated with it.
1060
1061           Used carp and changed all die's to confess.
1062
1063           Replaced some UNIX commands with perl equivalents (date with
1064           localtime in the tests, pwd with cwd in the path routines).
1065
1066           Cleaned up all routines working with the path.
1067
1068       Test fixes
1069           Tests work again (broke in 5.08).  Thanks to Alex Lewin and Michael
1070           Fuhr for running debugging tests.
1071

VERSION 5.08 (1997-01-24)

1073       Bug fixes
1074           (*) Fixed serious bug in ConvTZ pointed out by David Hall.
1075
1076           (*) Modified Date_ConvTZ (and documented it).
1077

VERSION 5.07p2 1997-01-03

1079       Released two patches for 5.07.
1080
1081       Bug fixes
1082           Fixed a bug where a delta component of "-0" would mess things up.
1083           Reported by Nigel Chapman.
1084
1085       Time zone fixes
1086           (*) Can now understand PST8PDT type zones (but only in
1087           Date_TimeZone).
1088
1089           Added lots of time zone abbreviations.
1090
1091       Test fixes
1092           Fixed some tests (good for another year).
1093

VERSION 5.07 (1996-12-10)

1095       (!) UnixDate "%s" format
1096           Used to return the number of seconds since 1/1/1970 in the current
1097           time zone.  It now returns the number of seconds since 1/1/1970
1098           GMT.  The "%o" format was added which returns what "%s" previously
1099           did.
1100
1101       (!) (*) Internal format of delta
1102           The format for the deltas returned by ParseDateDelta changed.
1103           Previously, each element of a delta had a sign attached to it
1104           (+1:+2:+3:+4:+5:+6).  The new format removes all unnecessary signs
1105           by default (+1:2:3:4:5:6).  Also, because of the way deltas are
1106           normalized (see documentation on ParseDateDelta), at most two signs
1107           are included.  For backwards compatibility, the config variable
1108           DeltaSigns was added.  If set to 1, all deltas include all 6 signs.
1109
1110       (!) (*) Date_Init arguments
1111           The format of the Date_Init calling arguments changed.  The old
1112           method
1113
1114              Date_Init($language,$format,$tz,$convtz);
1115
1116           is still supported , but this support will likely disappear in the
1117           future.  Use the new calling format instead:
1118
1119              Date_Init("var=val","var=val",...);
1120
1121           NOTE:  The old format is no longer supported as of version 5.32 .
1122
1123       (*) Added weeks to ParseDateDelta.
1124           Suggested by Mike Bassman.  Note that since this is a late
1125           addition, I did not change the internal format of a delta.
1126           Instead, it is added to the days field.
1127
1128       (*) Now reads a config file.
1129           Refer to the Date_Init documentation for details.
1130
1131       (*) Added business mode.
1132           See documentation.  Suggested by Mike Bassman.
1133
1134       New features
1135           (*) Modified how deltas are normalized and added the DeltaSigns
1136           config variable.
1137
1138           Added %q format "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS" to UnixDate.  Requested by Rob
1139           Perelman.  Also added %P format "YYYYMMDDHH:MM:SS".
1140
1141           Added a new config variable to allow you to work with multiple
1142           internal formats (with and without colons).  Requested by Rob
1143           Perelman.  See Date_Init documentation.
1144
1145           Added the following formats suggested by Andreas Johansson:
1146              Sunday week 22 [in 1996] [at 12:00]
1147              22nd Sunday [in 1996] [at 12:00]
1148              Sunday 22nd week [in 1996] [at 12:00]
1149
1150           Added a new config variable to allow you to define the first day of
1151           the week.  See Date_Init documentation.
1152
1153           Added the following formats to ParseDate for convenience (some were
1154           suggested by Mike Bassman):
1155              next/last Friday [at time]
1156              next/last week [at time]
1157              in 2 weeks [at time]
1158              2 weeks ago [at time]
1159              Friday in 2 weeks
1160              in 2 weeks on Friday
1161              Friday 2 weeks ago
1162              2 weeks ago Friday
1163
1164           Added Date_SecsSince1970GMT, moved the %s format to %o (secs since
1165           1/1/70) and added %s format (secs since 1/1/70 GMT).  Based on
1166           suggestions by Mark Osbourne.  Note this introduces a minor
1167           backward incompatibility described above.
1168
1169           Date_SetTime now works with international time separators.
1170
1171           Added the %g format (%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z) for an RFC 1123
1172           date.  Suggested by Are Bryne.
1173
1174           Added options to delete existing holidays and ignore global config
1175           file.
1176
1177           Date_GetNext and Date_GetPrev now return the next/prev occurrence
1178           of a time as well as a day.  Suggested by Are Bryne.
1179
1180           In approximate mode, deltas now come out completely normalized
1181           (only 1 sign).  Suggested by Rob Perelman.
1182
1183           Added Date::Manip::InitDone so initialization isn't duplicated.
1184
1185           Added a 3rd internal format to store YYYY-MM-DD HH:MN:SS (iso
1186           8601).
1187
1188           Added a config variable to allow you to work with 24 hour business
1189           days.  Suggested by Mike Bassman.
1190
1191           ParseDateDelta now returns "" rather than "+0:0:0:0:0:0" when there
1192           is an error.
1193
1194       Bug fixes
1195           (*) The d:h:mn:s of ALL deltas are normalized.
1196
1197           Huge number of code changes to clean things up.
1198
1199           Subroutines now check to see if 4 digit years are entered.
1200           Suggested by Are Bryne.
1201
1202           Added local($_) to all routines which use $_.  Suggested by Rob
1203           Perelman.
1204
1205           Complete rewrite of DateCalc.
1206
1207           Fixed a bug where UnixDate %E format didn't work with single digit
1208           dates.  Patch supplied by Jyrgen Nyrgaard.
1209
1210           Fixed a bug where "today" was not converted to the correct time
1211           zone.
1212
1213       Time zone fixes
1214           Fixed bug in Date_TimeZone where it didn't recognize +HHMN type
1215           time zones.  Thanks to Are Bryne.
1216
1217           Added WindowsNT check to Date_TimeZone to get around NT's weird
1218           date command.  Thanks to Are Bryne.
1219
1220           Fixed typo (CSD instead of CST).
1221
1222           Fixed sign in military time zones making Date::Manip RFC 1123
1223           compliant (except that time zone information is not stored in any
1224           format)
1225
1226       Test fixes
1227           (*) Added test suite!
1228

VERSION 5.06 (1996-10-25)

1230       New features
1231           Added "today at time" formats.
1232
1233           ParseDateDelta now normalizes the delta as well as DateCalc.
1234
1235           Added %Q format "YYYYMMDD" to UnixDate.  Requested by Rob Perelman.
1236
1237       Bug fixes
1238           Fixed another two places where a variable was declared twice using
1239           my (thanks to Ric Steinberger).
1240
1241           Fixed a bug where fractional seconds weren't parsed correctly.
1242
1243           Fixed a bug where "noon" and other special times were not parsed in
1244           the "which day of month" formats.
1245
1246           Fixed a minor bug where a few matches were case sensitive.
1247
1248           The command "date +%Z" doesn't work on SunOS machines (and perhaps
1249           others) so 5.05 is effectively broken.  5.06 released to fix this.
1250           Reported by Rob Perelman.
1251

VERSION 5.05 (1996-10-11)

1253       New features
1254           Changed deltas to be all positive or all negative when produced by
1255           DateCalc.  Suggested by Steve Braun
1256
1257           Added DateManipVersion routine.
1258
1259           (*) Parses RFC 822 dates (thanks to J.B. Nicholson-Owens for
1260           suggestion).
1261
1262           Parses ctime() date formats (suggested by Matthew R. Sheahan).
1263
1264           Now supports times like "noon" and "midnight".
1265
1266       Bug fixes
1267           Fixed bug introduced in 5.04 when default day set to 1.  When no
1268           date given, have day default to today rather than 1.  It only
1269           defaults to one if a partial date is given.
1270
1271           Fixed bug where Date_DaysSince999 returned the wrong value (the
1272           error did not affect any other functions in Date::Manip due to the
1273           way it was called and the nature of the error).  Pointed out by
1274           Jason Baker
1275
1276           Dates with commas in them are now read properly.
1277
1278           Fixed two places where a variable was declared twice using my
1279           (thanks to Ric Steinberger).
1280
1281           Hopefully fixed installation problems.
1282
1283           Got rid of the last (I think) couple of US specific strings.
1284
1285           Fixed bug in Date_SetTime (didn't work with $hr,$min,$sec < 10).
1286
1287           Added ModuloAddition routine and simplified DateCalc.
1288
1289       Time zone fixes
1290           (*) Now supports time zones.
1291
1292           (*) Added Date_ConvTZ routine for time zone support.
1293
1294           Date_TimeZone will now also check `date '+%Z'` suggested by Aharon
1295           Schkolnik.
1296
1297       Language fixes
1298           Added Swedish translation (thanks to Andreas Johansson
1299
1300           The time separators are now language specific so the French can
1301           write "10h30" and the Swedes can write "10.30".  Suggested by
1302           Andreas Johansson.
1303
1304       Documentation fixes
1305           Fixed bad mistake in documentation (use Date::Manip instead of use
1306           DateManip) pointed out by tuc@valhalla.stormking.com
1307
1308           Minor improvements to documentation.
1309
1310           Documented the 'sort within a sort' bug.
1311
1312           Fixed type in documentation/README pointed out by James K. Bence.
1313

VERSION 5.04 (1996-08-01)

1315       New features
1316           Added support for fractional seconds (as generated by Sybase).
1317           They are parsed and ignored.  Added by Kurt Stephens
1318
1319       Bug fixes
1320           Fixed bugs reported by J.B. Nicholson-Owens
1321              "Tue Jun 25 1996" wasn't parsed correctly (regexp was case
1322                 sensitive)
1323              full day names not parsed correctly
1324              the default day in ErrorCheck should be 1, NOT currd since when
1325              currd>28, it may not be a valid date for the month
1326

VERSION 5.03 (1996-07-17)

1328       Bug fixes
1329           Fixed a couple of bugs in UnixDate.
1330
1331           Declared package variables to avoid warning "Identifier XXX used
1332           only once".  Thanks to Peter Bray for the suggestion.
1333

VERSION 5.02 (1996-07-15)

1335       New features
1336           (*) Added some internationalization (most of the routines had to be
1337           modified at least slightly)
1338
1339       Bug fixes
1340           Fixed a bug where repeated calls to ParseDate("today") was not
1341           reset
1342
1343           Replaced the %Date::Manip::Date variable with a large number of
1344           other, more flexible variables
1345
1346           Rewrote the Init routine
1347

VERSION 5.01 (1996-06-24)

1349       New features
1350           Added %F format to UnixDate. Rob Perelman
1351
1352           Added "Date at Time" types
1353
1354           Weekdays can be entered and checked
1355
1356           Two digit years fall in the range CurrYear-89 to CurrYear+10
1357
1358       Bug fixes
1359           Reworked a number of the ParseDate regular expressions to make them
1360           more flexible
1361
1362       Documentation fixes
1363           Fixed a typo (Friday misspelled Fridat). Rob Perelman
1364
1365           Documentation problem for \$err in DateCalc. Rob Perelman
1366

VERSION 5.00 (1996-06-21)

1368       (*) Switched to a package.
1369           Patch supplied by Peter Bray:
1370              renamed to Date::Manip
1371              changed version number to 2 decimal places
1372              added POD documentation
1373
1374           Thanks to Peter Bray, Randal Schwartz, Andreas Koenig for
1375           suggestions
1376
1377       Bug fixes
1378           Fixed a bug pointed out by Peter Bray where it was complaining of
1379           an uninitialized variable.
1380

VERSION 4.3 (1995-10-26)

1382       New features
1383           Added "which dofw in mmm" formats to ParseDate.  Mark Dedlow
1384
1385       Bug fixes
1386           Added a bugfix of Adam Nevins where "12:xx pm" used to be parsed
1387           "24:xx:00".
1388

VERSION 4.2 (1995-10-23)

1390       New features
1391           UnixDate will now return a scalar or list depending on context
1392
1393           ParseDate/ParseDateDelta will now take a scalar, a reference to a
1394           scalar, or a reference to an array
1395
1396           (*) Simple time zone handling
1397
1398           (*) Added Date_SetTime, Date_GetPrev, Date_GetNext
1399
1400       Bug fixes
1401           Added copyright notice (requested by Tim Bunce)
1402

VERSION 4.1 (1995-10-18)

1404       New features
1405           (*) Added DateCalc
1406
1407       Bug fixes
1408           Changed %DATE_ to %DateManip::Date
1409
1410           (*) Rewrote ParseDateDelta
1411

VERSION 4.0 (1995-08-13)

1413       (*) First public release
1414
1415       New features
1416           Added time first formats to ParseDate
1417
1418       Bug fixes
1419           (*) Switched to perl 5
1420
1421           Cleaned up ParseDate, ParseDateDelta
1422

VERSION 3.0 (1995-05-03)

1424       New features
1425           Added today/tomorrows/etc. formats
1426
1427           (*) Added UnixDate
1428
1429           (*) Added ParseDateDelta
1430
1431       Bug fixes
1432           Added %DATE_ global variable to clean some stuff up
1433
1434           Simplified several routines
1435

VERSION 2.0 (1995-04-17)

1437       New features
1438           Included ideas from Time::ParseDate (David Muir Sharnoff)
1439
1440           Included ideas from date.pl 3.2 (Terry McGonigal)
1441
1442           (*) Added seconds to ParseDate
1443
1444       Bug fixes
1445           Made error checking much nicer
1446

VERSION 1.2 (1995-03-31)

1448       New features
1449           Added a few date formats
1450
1451       Bug fixes
1452           Made months case insensitive
1453

VERSION 1.1 (1995-02-08)

1455       New features
1456           Added leap year checking
1457
1458           Both "Feb" and "February" formats available
1459

VERSION 1.0 (1995-01-20)

1461       (*) Initial release
1462           Though not released to the public, the initial released combined
1463           routines from several scripts into one library.
1464

BUGS AND QUESTIONS

1466       Please refer to the Date::Manip::Problems documentation for information
1467       on submitting bug reports or questions to the author.
1468

SEE ALSO

1470       Date::Manip       - main module documentation
1471

LICENSE

1473       This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
1474       under the same terms as Perl itself.
1475

AUTHOR

1477       Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org)
1478
1479
1480
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