TimeDate

Changes for version 1.17 - 2009-09-19

Bugfixes
- RT#45067: Date::Format with %z gives wrong results for half-hour timezones (Ernesto Hernández-Novich)
- RT#48164: Date::Parse unable to set seconds correctly
- RT#17396: Parse error for french date with 'mars' (march) as month
Documentation
- Fixed documentation for %e in Date::Format
- Update documentation to remove Date::Format->language
Enhancements
- Add support for dates like Jul-13-1999 (Brett Warden)
- Added Icelandic language (Tomas Edwardsson)
- Added Romanian language (Doru Petrescu)
- Added Russian language (Denis Poznyakov & Danil Pismenny)
- Added Turkish language (Burak Gursoy)
- Added Spanish language (Adrian Mugnolo)
- Added Chinese language (Kang-min Liu)
- Support parsing dates like 2002-02-26-10:37:21.141 as used by lpd
- Support Z timezone when only the time is specified
- Added METDST to Time::Zone
- Added AKST/AKDT to Time::Zone
Changes prior to 1.17
Change 814 on 2003/06/03 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Parse
- Time::Local in 5.8 does not support fractional seconds
Change 813 on 2003/06/02 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Release 1.15
Change 812 on 2003/06/02 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Fix comments about Language implementation in Date::Parse (patch from Christian Hammers)
Change 811 on 2003/06/02 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Fix short name for 'maart' to be 'mrt' as suggested by Frank Maas
Change 810 on 2003/06/02 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Add %G format for GPS week (patch from Eric Richardson)
Change 809 on 2003/06/02 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Language updates from Daniel Yacob
Change 808 on 2003/06/02 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- str2time("") should return undef
Change 807 on 2003/06/02 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Added Swedish and Finnish languages from Matthew Musgrove
Change 778 on 2003/03/03 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Added Chinese_GB language. Supplied by forehead (I don't even pretend tounderstand it)
Change 777 on 2003/03/03 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Return fractional seconds when specified in an ISO date
Change 776 on 2003/03/03 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- New languages from Daniel Yacob
Change 775 on 2003/03/03 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Fix UTC support on ISO dates
Change 774 on 2003/03/03 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Allow a : in a timezone so the dates specified in RSS can be parsed (eg 2002-11-07T23:31:49-05:00) Patch from Kellan
Change 773 on 2003/03/03 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Support parsing more formats
Change 754 on 2002/11/03 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Release 1.14
Change 753 on 2002/11/03 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Fix bug parsing 2002-11-02 11pm
Change 752 on 2002/11/03 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Add Greek language module from Matthew Musgrove
Change 744 on 2002/09/16 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Add Date::Language::Brazilian and Date::Language::Danish to MANIFEST
Change 743 on 2002/09/16 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Add Date::Language::Brazilian from Christian Tosta Add Date::Language::Danish from Lars Skjærlund
Change 742 on 2002/09/16 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Time::Zone
- Add some zones for Brazil
Change 741 on 2002/09/16 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Time::Zone [cpan #1299]
- Allow $ENV{TZ} to have zomes like EST5
Change 733 on 2002/06/13 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Language::French
- Fix missing ;
Change 732 on 2002/06/06 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Release 1.13
Change 731 on 2002/06/06 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Fix pattern to allow single digits for month and day (eg '2002-6-1')
Change 730 on 2002/06/03 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Release 1.12
Change 729 on 2002/06/03 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Fix month name abbreviations
Change 720 on 2002/04/25 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Parse
- Make it work with 5.004 again
Change 719 on 2002/04/25 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Prevent the ISO date pattern matching where it should not. ie there must not be a non-space character directly before the date string
Change 718 on 2002/04/17 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Change French @Dsuf, from Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
Change 712 on 2002/03/07 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Added %L format for month number as 1..12 from Adam Monsen
Change 708 on 2002/02/28 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Release 1.11
Change 707 on 2002/02/28 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Fix format error in t/date.t
Change 692 on 2002/01/09 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Be a bit more lenient on the ISO format
Change 691 on 2002/01/02 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Fix typo in ISO-8601 formats in docs
Change 690 on 2001/12/28 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Format
- Fix array dereference syntax typo
Change 689 on 2001/12/28 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Format
- Fix doc typos
Change 682 on 2001/11/20 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Parse
- Make the minutes and seconds parts of an ISO-8601 optional (patch from Christian Hammers)
Change 681 on 2001/11/20 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Parse
- Allow AM/PM to be just A/P (eg Jul 13 1999 1:23P) as used by MySQL (patch from Drew Degentesh)
Change 680 on 2001/11/20 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Time::Zone
- Add CEST Central European Daylight
Change 679 on 2001/11/20 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Parse
- Extract (but ignore) fractions of a second in an ISO8601 date string (patch from rayg at yahoo-inc.com)
Change 678 on 2001/11/20 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Add %P to be am or pm
Change 677 on 2001/11/20 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Language::French
- Um, the french have 7 days in the week just like everyone else
Change 676 on 2001/11/20 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Language::German
- Fix abbrev for October (patch from Stefan Niederhauser)
Change 634 on 2001/09/03 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Add a check for invalid years in format 1995-01-24
Change 580 on 2000/09/04 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Release 1.10
Change 579 on 2000/09/04 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Parse
- Support for more date formats
- Time::Zone
- Added more zones
Change 539 on 2000/06/14 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Documentation updates
Change 536 on 2000/06/06 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Fix VERSION numbers
Change 535 on 2000/06/06 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Format
- Added support for %O* to support output of roman numerals
Change 443 on 2000/03/29 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Release 1.09
Change 442 on 2000/03/29 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Added PPD stuff to Makefile.PL
Change 441 on 2000/03/29 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Parse
- Allow "s after the timezone
Change 440 on 2000/03/29 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Format
- Fix doc for %c and %C
Change 409 on 2000/03/28 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Moved .pm files into lib directory
Change 408 on 2000/03/28 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- str2time returns undef on error bit Time::Local returns -1. Check if the -1 is real or an error
Change 407 on 2000/03/28 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Added Eastern European Summer Time EEST
Change 268 on 1999/03/18 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Format, Time::Zone
- Fix problem with %z and %Z as suggested by Jason A Smith <smithj4@rpi.edu>
Change 267 on 1999/03/18 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Make t/getdate.t more portable as suggested by Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>
Change 250 on 1999/02/06 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Format
- Correct docs for %d and %e
Change 249 on 1999/02/06 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Added Date::Language::Czech
Change 180 on 1998/08/05 by <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Language
- Added Date::Language::French contributed by Emmanuel Bataille (bem@residents.frmug.org)
- Split out the languages into .pm's
- Date::Parse
- Added patch from Alan Burlison to Date::Parse to allow zone offests +7, +10 and +700
- Parse now supports GMT+0100
Release 1.08
Fri Jan 2 1998 <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Format, Time::Zone
- Fix for formatting %z and %Z
- all
- Update Email address and year
Tue Feb 17 1998 <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Language
- Added format_o to German
Fri Sep 12 1997 <gbarr@pobox.com> (Graham Barr)
- Date::Parse
- Added 'DST' to parser, it adjusts $zone by 3600 (but that may not be right in all cases)
- Added a check to str2time to ensure valid values are passed to Time::Local, to avoid croak-ing
- Fixed to treat AM and PM correctly when the hour is 12. (I hope :-)
- Time::Zone
- Modified for Western Australia
Tue 07 Jan 1996
- o Release 1.07 o Fixed a problem in Time::Zone (had @l[8] instead of $l[8], doh! )
Thu 02 Jan 1996
- o Release 1.06 o Fixed t/getdate.t o Date::Parse can now parse the date-format 960913, which apparently is fairly common in sweden.
Wed 31 Jul 1996 <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
- o Release 1.05 o Modified Date::Format not to use single letter sub names, all format sub names are nore prefixed with format_ o Cleaned up Date/Format.pm so that AUTOLOAD is not required o Patched Date/Language.pm to add Norwegian. Thanks to Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no> for the patch
Thu 27 Jun 1996 <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
- o Added %z to Date::Format to output timezone in +/-0000 format o Added multi-language support via Date::Language,.
Tue 25 Jun 1996 <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
- o Some code tidying up o added a new test, copied from Date::GetDate o improved performance
Wed 22 May 1996 <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
- o Fixed a bug in the parser for dates in a default (local) timezone but a different dst
Wed 15 May 1996 <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
- o Added support for mainframe type dates
Fri 3 May 1996 <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
- o Added %s to date formatting at request of Josh Osborne <stripes@va.pubnix.com>.