2006.0814: A bugfix for negative offsets that overflowed (from Vernon Lyon ) Add a few more timezones (from Peter Ludemann and Alex Bowley ) Recognize fractional times counts like "1.5 minutes ago" (from Simon Wistow ) Recognize Dow "before last" (from Ole Craig ) Change various __DATA__ to __END__ (from Nick Ing-Simmons ) 2003.1125: Various folks have complained that JulianDay isn't correct. An errata section has been added to the documentation. Mark Ivey add '@' as a synonym for 'at'. Fixed typos. Bryan Henderson sent in a patch to allow NOW => 0 so that ParseDate can be used to parse relative times. ewan@baremetal.com sent in a patch adding a bit of ISO 8601 support. David Alban doesn't like allowing the hour 24:00. I agree. Gone if you have VALIDATE=>1. Still to be done: the support the large number of ISO 8601 date formats: http://hydracen.com/dx/iso8601.htm 2003.0211: Mike Cramer sent a patch to Timezone to handle changes in $ENV{TZ}. Rani Pinchuk sent in a definition for the CEST timezone. On Phil.Moore@msdw.com's behalf the timezone 'MET DST' is now supported. 2002.1001: No real changes, just added a license. 101.062001: Paul Zimmer found that '7/17/01' with PREFER_FUTURE failed badly. Fixed. This was also submitted by Dana Burd . Ben Daglish noted that array context was implying WHOLE and DATE_REQUIRED. Fixed. Streppone Cosimo requested support for postgresql's date format ("dd/mm/yyyy hh:mn:ss +tzo") Ameeth Linus Daniel found that IST wasn't a defined timezone. I've defined it as +0530, but I'm not positive that's correct. Gautam Tripathi sent in a fix for timezone offset calculations making them consistent across all systems (no more problems with differing interpretations of negative modulus operations). Mike Nerone requested the syntax "4 days ago". He says that that syntax is suppored by GNU date. This was also requested by Townsend, John E. . Anton Berezin notice that ParseDate couldn't handle "Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT" and sent in a patch. 100.010301: W. Phillip Moore reproted a Y2K bug: it could not parse 'Jan 1 2000 10:30:30AM'. Fixed. This is embarassing beasue sent in a patch Dec 9th! 99.111701: Allen Smith noticed that VALIDATE wouldn't accept hours > 0... Hugh C Kennedy contributed patches to parse months like `Jan.' in additon to `Jan' and `January'. 99.062401: Randy Kobes sent in a fix for Timezone.pm that allows all tests to pass on MSWin32. 99.062301: Eric Prestemon noticed that %y would print "0" in 2000, not "00" as it should. Fixed. Parsedate() now checks for wantarray() and returns what remains of its input when called from array context. Added another parsing option: VALIDATE. When VALIDATE is set, silly values for hours, months, etc will be rejected. Like the 32nd of December will no longer be new years day. 99.062201: Optionally return fractional seconds from ParseDate (including the SYBASE formatted ones). Provide for printing fractional seconds in CTime. Changes from Douglas Wegscheid 99.061601: More attempts to support systems whose time function isn't centered around Jan 1, 1970 midnight GMT. 99.061501: Fixed a couple of compiler warnings. Did extensive testing with dates beyond 2000 and before 1970. Quite a few code changes. Old code would have worked in many > 2000 cases but broke terribly for dates < 1970. New code should work until year 10k. Well, there's one problem: unix time format is only 32 bits, signed. 98.112901: Slight change to avoid an "Use of uninitialized value" error pointed out by Mike Coffin . 98.112801: It turns out that Sybase emits time values like "3:09:59:000PM". The last three digits are milliseconds. Such times are now recognized but the milliseconds are ignored. Change requested by ryanmcleish . Corrected the documenation on strftime conversions for %d and %e. The code and the documentation now agree: %d - 01 to 31 %e - 1 to 31 98.052201: Minor bugfix: didn't recognize 5/18/1998. 97.092101: Fix a 5.004 warning. Add support for "June 4, 1997" 96.110801: Added support for negative relative times. Bugfix: "now" by itself was ignored. Bugfix: could not combine "now" with time offsets (only date offsets) 96.032801: Added support for "TZN 96.032702: This is the first release to use the Makefile.PL packaging. There are many changes with repect to previous releases. All modules now running with -w and use strict. CTime.pm: should be faster ParseDate.pm: core logic changed, more dates parsed. datetime.t: more tests Timezone.pm: ripped out tzset code and replaced it with code from Graham Barr ??.?????: Patch for UK-style dates: Sam Yates