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NAME
    Date::Manip::Changes5 - changes in Date::Manip 5.xx

SYNOPSIS
    This describes the changes made to the Date::Manip module up to the time that 6.00 was released.
    Because 6.00 required a newer version of perl (5.10 or higher), the old version was maintained.

    When Date::Manip 6.10 was released, both versions were bundled together (though how it was
    bundled changed when 6.14 was released).

    This document describes all changes made to the old version of Date::Manip.

    For the most part, Date::Manip has remained backward compatible at every release, but
    occasionally, a change is made which is backward incompatible. These are marked with an
    exclamation mark (!).

VERSION 5.66 (Released with 6.51)
    Fixed a bug in Date_ConvTZ
        Applied a patch supplied by Zhenyi Zhou which fixes a bug in Date_ConvTZ where passing in an
        empty string did not work.

VERSION 5.65 (Released with 6.37)
    As of December 2012, Version 5 of Date::Manip will no longer be modified. The 5.xx version was
    updated to 5.65 (but no changes were made), and this version is expected to be the final release
    in the 5.xx series.

    The one exception is that if someone submits a patch that applies cleanly and causes zero
    failures in the test suite, I will consider adding it on a case-by-cast bases.

    Please use Date::Manip 6.xx instead.

VERSION 5.64 (Released with 6.32)
    Better handling of '0000' timezone
        Applied a patch supplied by Ed Avis that improves handling of the '0000' timezone..

VERSION 5.63 (Released with 6.26)
    Fixed business mode calculation
        Applied a patch that I received some time ago to fix a business mode calculation. Steve
        Tempest

VERSION 5.62 (Released with 6.21)
    No changes

VERSION 5.61 (Released with 6.20)
    No changes

VERSION 5.60 (Released with 6.14)
    Fully integrated with 6.xx
        As of Date::Manip 6.14, the 5.xx release is fully integrated into the distribution. Both
        will be installed automatically and you can switch between them (if you have a recent
        version of perl). This simplifies the package management process considerably. The downside
        is that Date::Manip 6.xx will be installed, even if you do not have a recent version of perl
        and cannot use it.

VERSION 5.59 (Released with 6.12)
    Test fixes
        Fix tests to work better on windows.

VERSION 5.58 (Released with 6.11)
    Test fixes
        Fixed a bug in some of the tests that were causing two tests to fail. JD

        Explicitly set TZ in all tests to avoid some failures (it got left out of a few when it was
        bundled with 6.10).

VERSION 5.57 (Released with 6.10)
    (*) Combined 5.xx and 6.xx
        As of 6.10, Date-Manip-6.xx will contain both the Date::Manip 5.xx and 6.xx modules. If perl
        5.10 or higher is available, the 6.xx version will be installed. For older versions of perl,
        the 5.xx version will be installed.

        This will allow all of the automatic module tools to work correctly.

    Bug fixes
        Fixed a bug where years earlier than 1000 AD failed in calculations. John

    Time zone fixes
        Improved time zone detection. Stepan Kasal

    Documentation fixes
        Minor improvements. Josef Kreulich

VERSION 5.56 (2010-02-24)
    Bug fixes
        Date_PrevWorkDay and documentation fix. RT #17005

        I accidentally included a require 5.10 which made Date::Manip not work with earlier versions
        of perl. Nicholas Riley

VERSION 5.55 (2010-02-22)
    (*) Added time zone abbreviations
        Date::Manip 5.xx now includes all of the time zone abbreviations from version 6.xx (i.e. all
        of the abbreviations from the Olsen database).

    Documentation fixes
        Typo fix. ddascalescu

VERSION 5.54 (2008-05-09)
    Released

VERSION 5.53 (DEVELOPMENT)
    Bug fixes
        Fix so it won't fail with "Too early to specify a build action"

    CPANTS changes
        Final changes to meet requirements on http://cpants.perl.org/

VERSION 5.52 (2008-05-08)
    Released

VERSION 5.51 (DEVELOPMENT)
    Bug fixes
        Fixed bug where the wrong version was in Build.PL

    CPANTS changes
        Additional changes to meet requirements on http://cpants.perl.org/

VERSION 5.50 (2008-05-05)
    Released

VERSION 5.49 (DEVELOPMENT)
    New features
        Added "ereyesterday". Ed Avis

    Time zone fixes
        Added time zones. Damyan Ivanov, Ernesto Hernandez-Novich, Gregor Herrmann, Nicholas Riley,
        Enrique Verdes, Alexander Litvinov

    Documentation fixes
        Corrected typo in %G and %L format descriptions. Troy A. Bollinger

    CPANTS changes
        Added Build.PL and several other things to meet requirements on http://cpants.perl.org/

VERSION 5.48 (2007-11-27)
    Released

VERSION 5.47 (DEVELOPMENT)
    Bug fixes
        Fixed the version number. John R. Daily

        Fixed a warning when the date command not present. Daniel Hahler

        Fixed a bug where recurrences of the form 0:1*, 0:0:1*, etc., incorrectly required a base
        date. Gerry Lawrence

        Fixed a bug where "substring" was used instead of "substr".

    Time zone fixes
        Fixed a problem in the WEST time zone. Cristina Nunes

        Added time zone. Kimmo R. M. Hovi

    Documentation fixes
        Revised some of the documentation about Y2K (given that it's in the past) and the 2007 US
        daylight saving time rule changes.

VERSION 5.46 (2007-02-21)
    Released

VERSION 5.45 (DEVELOPMENT)
    New features
        Added "overmorrow". Ed Avis

    Bug fixes
        Fixed bug in parsing ISO 8601 dates. Paul Schinder

        Fixed a bug in UnixDate for years before 1000 AD. Joaquin Ferrero

        Fixed a bug where "today" wasn't case insensitive. Pedro Rodrigues

        Fixed a bug where business/approximate mode wasn't correctly used in DateCalc. Mark T.
        Kennedy

        Bug in DateCalc where you couldn't pass undef as the errref. Alex Howansky

        Bug where cygwin wasn't using the date command. Rafael Kitover

    Time zone fixes
        New time zones. Khairil Yusof, Andy Spiegel, Ernesto Rapetti

        New time zones. Robin Norwood

        Fixed Russian time zones. Yuri Kovalenko

    Language fixes
        Language fix for Danish. Claus Rasmussen

        Language fix for German. Andreas Dembach

    Documentation fixes
        Minor documentation improvement. Caminati Carlo

        Lots of spelling fixes. Asaf Bartov

VERSION 5.44 (2005-06-02)
    Released

VERSION 5.43 (DEVELOPMENT)
    (!) (*) Recurrences revisited
        The behavior of some elements of recurrences changed. These included making the week element
        (N) refer to the Nth occurrence of a day of the week in the week, month, or year. It is now
        possible to look at the 3rd Friday of every month for example.

        Y-0-WOY-DOW now refers to the WOY'th occurrence of DOW instead of the ISO 8601 date
        Y-W(WOY)-DOY. Also, changed Y-0-WOY-0 to refer to the WOY'th occurrence of FirstDay, and got
        rid of the MW and MD flags. Many other similar changes.

    (!) Changed %x format in UnixDate
        The %x format used to be equivalent to %D (%m/%d/%y), but it has been modified to use the
        DateFormat config variable, so it may return %d/%m/%y if a non-US DateFormat is specified.

    New features
        Added TodayIsMidnight. Reuben Thomas

        Added "approx" mode to Delta_Format and reversed change to default Delta_Format behavior to
        the one from version 5.40. Based on discussion with Adam Spiers.

        Added %O UnixDate format. Martin Thurn

    Bug fixes
        Fixed a bug is ParseRecur where values passed in were no overriding old values in the
        recurrence. Scott Barker (reported to the Debian bugs list).

        Fix for a potential problem in the "0000" time zone. Ed Avis

        Changed taint check to be the one in perlsec(1). Max Kalika

        Minor fix so DateInit("VAR=") will work. Thomas Bohme

        Fixed a bug where business mode was kept operative even after the calculation was over.
        Emiliano Bruni

        Minor change to run under cygwin. Niel Markwick

        Minor VMS fix. Martin P.J. Zinser

        Small fix to taint checking. David Worenklein

        Fixed a problem where deltas were getting misinterpreted as dates. Harry Zhu

        Fixed a bug in ParseRecur where "last day of every March" couldn't be done. Andras Karacsony

        Fixed a bug in business mode calculations. Tracy L Sanders

        Sorted all events and dates returned by Events_List. This fixes problems with tests on some
        versions of perl. Tulan

        Modified %x UnixDate format to use DateFormat config variable. Matt Lyons

    Time zone fixes
        Fixed a problem with single character military time zones (T and W) conflicting with ISO
        8601 T and W dates. Hugo Cornelis

        Small correction to Brazil time zones. John McDonald

        Added time zones. Michael Wood-Vasey, Don Robertson, Michael D. Setzer II, Andres Tarallo

    Language fixes
        Fixed German translations. Oliver Scheit

        Minor corrections to Italian. Nicola Pedrozzi

        Added the language Catalan. Xavi Drudis

    Documentation fixes
        Minor doc fixes Reuben Thomas, Ed Avis, Thomas Winzig

        Clarified documentation on %W/%G/%U/%L formats. Joel Savignon

VERSION 5.42a 2003-07-03
    Test fixes
        A quick fix to replace a faulty test.

VERSION 5.42 (2003-07-02)
    Released
        Number changed to distinguish between the development release (5.41) and the official
        release.

VERSION 5.41 (DEVELOPMENT)
    As of 5.41, odd numbered releases are development (and appear only on my page). Even number
    releases are official releases submitted to CPAN.

    (!) Changed path separator for VMS
        Since ":" is used in some VMS paths, it should not have been used as the path separator. It
        has been changed to a newline ("\n") character.

    (!) Delta_Format behavior changed
        The entire delta is exact if no month component is present (previously, no year or month
        component could be present). Due to discussion with Tim Turner.

    Bug fixes
        Small patch for OpenVMS. Martin P.J. Zinser

        Minor enhancement to ParseRecur. Randy Harmon

        Fixed a bug involving business deltas with negative hours. Ludovic Dubost

        Added some support for NetWare. Chris Shields

        Applied some robustness patches. Ed Avis

        Fixed a bug with years <1000. Jonathan Callahan

        Patch to make Manip.pm -Mstrict clean and better VMS support. Peter Prymmer

        Fixed a bug in "1st Saturday of 2005" format. Maurice Aubrey

        Taint check insecure $ENV{PATH} fix. Ed Avis

        Patch to allow deltas of the form "+ -1 day" to work. Ed Avis

        Removed ampersands from function calls in documentation to fit new perl coding standards.
        Bill Pollock

        Fixed a bug where spaces in a date caused problems in German (due to the number 1st, 2nd,
        etc. being 1., 2., etc.). Erik Roderwald

    Time zone fixes
        Minor bug fix where /etc/time zone not correctly read. Jacek Nowacki

        Made the UnixDate %Z format work with numeric time zones. Michael Isard

        Fixed bug where -HH:MM and +HH:MM were not being accepted as valid time zones. Hank Barta

        Fixed a bug where time zones -HH:MM weren't handled in ISO 8601 dates. Ed Avis

        Added some help for VMS time zones. Don Slutz

        Added some checking to the time zone determination. Ed Avis

        Added time zones. David Coppit, Daniel Serodio, Fabian Mandelbaum, Raul Dias, Pedro Melo
        CUNHA, Roman Y Malakhov, David Whiting, Khaled Mostaguir, Jason King

    Language fixes
        (*) Replaced all non-ASCII characters with hex representations to avoid the malformed UTF-8
        character warnings. Ed Avis

        Added Russian translation. Dapi

        Additions to Dutch translation. Willem

        Patch to French support. Patrick Turmel

        Added Tues/Thur abbreviations. Martin Thurn

        Added Turkish. Giray

        Added Danish. Jesper Dalberg A patch for Danish was send by Jorgen Norgaard previously, and
        I somehow overlooked it. I apologize for that.

    Test fixes
        Added runtests.bat contributed by Lon Amick

    Documentation fixes
        Minor doc fix. Jeremy Tietsort

        Fixed spelling of Veteran's day. Dirk Eddelbuettel

        Documentation improvements. James Olsen

VERSION 5.40 (2001-06-07)
    New features
        Added support for negative values is "epoch SECS" type dates. Larry Warner

        Added NWD/PWD/DWD flags to ParseRecur. Peter Wyngaard

    Bug fixes
        Fixed a warning. Edward Avis

        Fixed a bug where the date wasn't rolling over when parsing dates containing only times.
        James L. Gordon

        Fixed a bug where some times were defaulting to the current time instead of 00:00:00. Edward
        Avis

        Fixed a bug in Date_NthDayOfYear with decimal days. Olga Polyakov

        Fixed a bug where ParseDateDelta returned a delta if nothing was passed in. Jim Hranicky

        Fixed a bug where noon was case sensitive. Bion Pohl

        Fixed a bug where dateTtime wasn't parsed. Jeremy Brinkley

        Fixed a bug in holiday parsing involving recurrences. Jerry Wilcox

        Fixed a bug where an invalid date passed to Date_IsWorkDay produced an error message. Mark
        Rejhon

        Fixed a bug where EraseHolidays wasn't taking affect correctly. Chateauvieux Martial

        Fixed a bug where the list produced by Date_Init couldn't be passed back in to Date_Init.
        James Elson

    Time zone fixes
        Added `date +%Z` support in Date_TimeZone. Mike Bristow

        Fixed a warning if the time zone is supplied as a +HHMM format. Viola Mauro

        Fixed South African time zone. David Sieborger

    Documentation fixes
        Added an example. Philip Jones

VERSION 5.39 (2000-06-27)
    Bug fixes
        `date` uses the user's path unless taint checking is on.

        @::DatePath used instead of @Date::Manip::DatePath incorrectly. Fixed by John Labovitz.

        Fixed a bug where times such as "5 seconds ago" were not changing over time. Matthew R.
        Sheahan

    Time zone fixes
        Added /etc/time zone support to &Date_TimeZone. Dirk Eddelbuettel

        Added time zones. Dirk Eddelbuettel, Eli Selinger

VERSION 5.38 (2000-05-23)
    (*) Added Events
        Added Events section to config file and Events_List routine. Prompted by Greg Schiedler and
        paid for by Alan Cezar.

    (!) Removed Date_DaysSince999
        The Date_DaysSince999 function (deprecated in 5.35) has been removed.

    New features
        Added support for ISO8601 dates of the format dateTtime. Jason Pierce

        Got rid of the "use Cwd" and ENV{PATH} lines which means no more taint problems.

    Bug fixes
        Fixed "dofw" format to return the day of the current week as documented instead of next
        week. Dennis Ingram

        Fixed a bug where dates in years 1900, 1800, etc. (but not 2000 or other 400th years) were
        off by one day in DayOfWeek. Noble Thomas

        Fixed a bug in ParseRecur (2-digit years not treated correctly). Brian Rectanus

    Time zone fixes
        Added time zones. Nelson Ferreira, David Harper

    Documentation fixes
        Fixed some typos. Thanks to Alex Kapranoff

        Typo fixed. Jim Hranicky

VERSION 5.37 (2000-02-14)
    Bug fixes
        Set ENV{PATH} to help with taint checking. Joe Lipson

        Fixed a serious bug where HH:24:00 was broken due to support from 24:00:00. Scott Egashira

    Time zone fixes
        Fixed the sign on the military time zones. John Scott

VERSION 5.36 (2000-01-21)
    New features
        Added support for 24:00:00 to ParseDate. William H Asquith

    Bug fixes
        Fixed a bug in ParseRecur. Lewis Tsao

        Fixed a bug is UnixDate (%l format). Jon Hedley

        Fixed a bug in Date_GetNext/Prev. Christoph Haas

        Fixed a bug in Date_IsHoliday. Report and patch by Rolf Beutner

        Fixed a bug in UnixDate. Patch by Kurtis D. Rader

        Rewrote IsInt routine based on discussion with Sean Hunter (approximately 30% faster on a
        SPARC).

    Time zone fixes
        Added time zone. Paul Arzul

    Documentation fixes
        Fixed a documentation problem with Date_ConvTZ. Diab Jerius

VERSION 5.35 (1999-07-06)
    (!) Deprecated Date_DaysSince999
        In fixing support for the years 0001-0999, I rewrote Date_DaysSince999 to be
        Date_DaysSince1BC. The Date_DaysSince999 function will be removed.

    (*) (!) Added PathSep variable
        In order to better support Win32 platforms, I added the PathSep config variable. This will
        allow the use of paths such as "c:\date" on Win32 platforms. Old config files on Win32
        platforms (which were not working correctly in many cases) may not work if they contain path
        information to the personal config file.

    (*) Recurrences now support flags
        Flags for modifying recurrence dates are now supported.

    (*) Improved holiday support considerably
        Added support for recurrences and one-year-only holidays (the latter requested first by
        Vishal Bhatia.

    (*) Date_Init improved
        Date_Init can now return a list of config variables if called in array context. Based on a
        suggestion by Matt Tuttle.

    New features
        Modified Date_GetPrev/Date_GetNext to take $curr=2.

        Now parses the Apache log file format "dd/mmm/yyyy:hh:mm:ss (time zone)". Mark Ferguson

        Added OS/2 support. Michael B. Babakov

        Added Date_IsHoliday routine. Joe Pepin

        Added recurrence support for Easter (first suggested by Abigail).

    Bug fixes
        Made "epoch" not case sensitive and fixed a bug where it would fail in some languages.
        Caught because of Iosif's thorough Romanian test file.

        Fixed a problem where "in 5 days/weeks/months" sometimes wouldn't get correctly parsed in
        other languages. Caught because of Iosif's thorough Romanian test file.

        Fixed a weakness in ParseDateDelta brought out by the Romanian delta test file.

        Fixed a bug causing warnings in the beta version of perl. Patch by Paul Johnson.

        Fixed support for years 0000-0999. Requested by Chris Vaughan

        Several recurrence bug fixes.

        Put all the my'ed global variables in a couple hashes to clean up the namespace and to make
        a few future enhancements easier to do.

        Fixed a bug where business weeks weren't being used correctly. Qian Miao

        Fixed a serious typo in the DaysSince1BC routine. Qian Miao

        Fixed Veteran's day, added Good Friday (off by default). Peter Chen

        Cleaned up holiday variables and re-did holiday routines.

    Time zone fixes
        Added time zones. Oded Cohen

    Language fixes
        Added Romanian support (including 2 test files). Iosif Fettich

        Corrected Swedish translations. Danne Solli

        Some fixes to German translations. Peter Ehrenberg

        Added Italian. Nicola Pedrozzi

    Test fixes
        Added recurrence test suite

    Documentation fixes
        Several documentation updates.

        New recurrence documentation.

VERSION 5.34 (1999-04-13)
    (!) (*) All Date::Manip variables are no longer accessible
        Previously, Date::Manip variables were declared using a full package name. Now, they are
        declared with the my() function. This means that internal variables are no longer accessible
        outside of the module. Based on suggestion by Tom Christiansen

    (!) Week interpretation in business mode deltas
        A business mode delta containing a week value used to be treated as 7 days. A much more
        likely interpretation of a week is Monday to Monday, regardless of holidays, so this is now
        the behavior.

    (!) %z UnixDate format
        The %z UnixDate format used to return the time zone abbreviation. It now returns it as a GMT
        offset (i.e. -0500). %Z still returns the time zone abbreviation. Suggested by Tuc.

    (!) Formats "22nd Sunday" returns the intuitive value
        The date "22nd Sunday" used to return the Sunday of the 22nd week of the year (which could
        be the 21st, 22nd, or 23rd Sunday of the year depending on how weeks were defined). Now, it
        returns the 22nd Sunday of the year regardless.

    (!) Separator in DD/YYmmm and mmmDD/YY formats no longer optional
        Previously, the date "Dec1065" would return Dec 10, 1965. After adding the YYYYmmm and
        mmmYYYY formats, this was no longer possible. The separator between DD and YY is no longer
        optional, so

           Dec1065     returns December 1, 1065
           Dec10/65    returns December 10, 1965

    (*) Date_Cmp added
        In one of the next versions of Date::Manip, the internal format of the date will change to
        include time zone information. All date comparisons should be made using Date_Cmp (which
        currently does nothing more than call the Perl "cmp" command, but which will important when
        comparing dates that include the time zone).

        Added now in response to a question by Al Sorrell (I should have added it earlier).

    New features
        Added exact business mode. Ian Duplisse

        Added "mmmYYYY" and "YYYYmmm" formats. As a result, "DDYYmmm" and "mmmDDYY" formats changed
        to "DD/YYmmm" and "mmmDD/YY" as described above. David Twomey

    Bug fixes
        Fixed a bug where a date passed in as an array wasn't getting the date removed from the
        array. Rick Wise

        Added tests for MPE/iX OS. John Testa

        Fixed a bug where WorkDayBeg=8:00 went into an infinite loop. Mark Martinec

        Changed a business week to be the same as an exact week. Abigail

        Fixed a bug where "Sunday week 0" didn't work (only affected week 0) Gerald Rinske

        Minor bug (my variable declared twice). Paul J. Schinder

        Fixed a bug where "epoch SECONDS" was getting parsed wrong (for SECONDS which could be
        interpreted as an ISO-8601 date). N. Thomas

        Fixed a problem where init files were not being read. Mike Reetz

    Time zone fixes
        At the request of the UN, I added the SAT time zone. :-) Howard Hendler

        Fixed a bug where time zones were converted multiple times if ConvTZ was set and DateCalc
        called. Steven Hartland

    Language fixes
        Added Portuguese. Rui Pedro da Silva Leite Pereira

    Documentation fixes
        A number of typos fixed. Ron Pero

VERSION 5.33 (1998-08-20)
    Bug fixes
        Fixed a bug where "1 month ago" was no longer working (and added it to the test cases). This
        broke when I fixed the "-1second" bug in the previous version. A result of this is that a
        number of "deltas" can be parsed as dates (i.e. &ParseDate("1 hour 20 minutes ago") is
        equivalent to &DateCalc("now","1 hour 20 minutes ago")). Only text deltas can be used in
        this way (i.e. &ParseDate("-0:0:0:0:1:20:0") will not work).

    Language fixes
        Added Spanish support. Bautista Jasso Javier

VERSION 5.32 (1998-08-17)
    (!) Date_Init arguments
        The old style Date_Init arguments that were deprecated in version 5.07 have been removed.

    (!) (*) DateManip.cnf change
        Changed .DateManip.cnf to Manip.cnf (to get rid of problems on OS's that insist on 8.3
        filenames) for all non-Unix platforms (Windows, VMS, Mac). For all Unix platforms, it's
        still .DateManip.cnf . It will only look in the user's home directory on VMS and Unix.

    New features
        Added "in N days" and "N days ago" formats. Tony Bowden.

        Added cYYYY format to YYtoYYYY variable. Mark Rejhon.

        Added 2 days/weeks/months later in both ParseDate and ParseDelta (for Dutch support).
        Abigail.

        Added "Y:M:0*-DOM:0:0:0" to ParseRecur. Jeff Yoak.

    Bug fixes
        Fixed a bug where the deltas could be off by up to a couple minutes in some rare cases.
        Herman Horsten.

        Fixed an "uninitialized symbol" warning. Mark D. Anderson.

        Fixed a bug where holidays weren't erased. Jonathan Wright.

        Applied a bug fix from Joe Chapman where the %W/%U UnixDate formats were frequently wrong.

        Several minor fixes and improvements. Abigail.

        Added some VMS support. Charles Lane.

        Fixed a bug which caused a test to fail on some systems. Charles Lane.

        Fixed a bug where "-1second" was treated as a date rather than a delta in DateCalc. Kenneth
        Ingham

        Added a bit to the Makefile.PL (as it was distributed in the Win32 Perl Resource Kit).
        Murray Nesbitt

    Time zone fixes
        Allowed time zones of the format STD-#DST-#. Peter Gordon.

        Added time zone support for "+0500 (EST)". Tom Christiansen.

        Restricted time zones parsing to 0000-2359 instead of 0000-9999. Frank Cusack

        Added time zones. W. Phillip Moore, Michael Smith, Samuli Karkkainen

    Language fixes
        Added Polish support. Ian Wojtowicz.

        Added Dutch support. Abigail.

        Added A.M. and P.M. parsing (not just AM and PM). William W. Arnold.

        Fixed a German initialization problem. Thomas Horster-Moller and Christian Reithmaier

    Documentation fixes
        Documentation fix. Peter Gordon.

        Minor documentation changes. Yamamoto Hiroshi.

        Added info about the RCS problem. Supplied by Kipp E. Howard.

VERSION 5.31 (1998-04-08)
    New features
        Added "epoch SECS" format to ParseDateString. Thanks to: Joshua M. Burgin.

        Added a patch by Blair Zajac to make Date_NthDayOfYear work with decimal days.

    Bug fixes
        Fixed a bug in ParseDateDelta (seems to appear only in 5.005 pre-releases). Found by Larry
        W. Virden.

        Missed one form in ParseDate. Noted by Tuc.

        Fixed a bug where "15:00:00" couldn't be parsed. Michael Pizolato.

        Split Manip.pm. New files are HISTORY, TODO, Manip.pod.

        Fixed a bug in ParseDateDelta. Antonio Rosella.

        Removed the only occurrence of $& (which may speed some things up). Fix by Ken Williams.
        First suggested by Abigail.

        Fixed an overflow bug in doing date calculations with 2 dates more than 70 years apart. Fix
        by Vishal Bhatia.

        Fixed a bug where "5:00pm" wasn't always parsed correctly. Thanks to Jim Trocki.

        Fixed a bug in UnixDate (it wouldn't return the correct string for a format who's last
        character was '0') noted by Ramin V.

    Time zone fixes
        Relaxed some restrictions on time zones so ISO-8601 dates can use non-ISO-8601 time zones.
        Noted by John Chambers.

        Fixed a bug in converting time zones with a minutes field (+1030). Found by Paul O.

    Language fixes
        Some fixes to the French translations by Emmanuel Bataille.

        Added German support. Thanks to Andreas C. Poszvek.

    Documentation fixes
        Minor documentation fixes. Will Linden.

        Fixed a documentation problem with Date_GetPrev. It was still 0-6 instead of 1-7. Thanks to
        Robert Klep.

VERSION 5.30 (1998-01-21)
    (!) (*) Delta format changed
        A week field has been added to the internal format of the delta. It now reads
        "Y:M:W:D:H:MN:S" instead of "Y:M:D:H:MN:S".

    (*) Now handles recurring events
        Added ParseRecur. First suggested by Chris Jackson.

    New features
        All routines can now take either a 2- or 4-digit year.

        Added Delta_Format. First suggested by Alan Burlison.

        Added Date_SetDateField. Thanks to Martin Thurn.

    Bug fixes
        Made the $err argument to DateCalc optional.

        Changed the name of several of the library routines (not the callable ones) to standardize
        naming.

VERSION 5.21 (1998-01-15)
    (!) Long running processes may give incorrect time zone
        A process that runs during a time zone change (Daylight Saving Time specifically) may report
        the wrong time zone. See the UpdateCurrTZ variable for more information.

    (!) UnixDate "%J", "%W", and "%U" formats fixed
        The %J, %W, and %U will no longer report a week 0 or a week 53 if it should really be week 1
        of the following year. They now report the correct week number according to ISO 8601.

    New features
        Added YYtoYYYY variable. Suggested by Michel van der List.

        Added the UpdateCurrTZ variable to increase speed at the cost of being wrong on the time
        zone.

        Added British date formats. Thanks to Piran Montford. Monday week today week as well as some
        US formats in 2 months next month

        Time can now be written 5pm. Piran Montford.

        Added the TomorrowFirst variable and Date_NearestWorkDay function.

        Added UnixDate formats %G and %L to correctly handle the year. Thanks to Samuli Karkkainen.

        Added ForceDate variable. Based on a suggestion by Christian Campbell.

    Bug fixes
        Now passes Taint checks. Thanks to Mike Fuhr, Ron E. Nelson, and Jason L Tibbitts III.

        Put everything in a "use integer" pragma.

        Added a missing space in the %g UnixDate format. Thanks to Mike Booth.

        Removed all mandatory call to Date_Init (only called when current time is required).
        Significantly faster.

        Fixed a bug in Date_ConvTZ. Thanks to Patrick K Malone.

        Fixed a bug in Date_IsWorkDay.

    Time zone fixes
        Fixed some Australian time zones. Kim Davies.

    Language fixes
        Cleaned up multi-lingual initialization and added the IntCharSet variable.

        Improved French translations. Thanks to Emmanuel Bataille.

        Added "Sept" as a recognized abbreviation. Thanks to Martin Thurn.

        Typo in the French initialization. Thanks to Michel Minsoul.

    Test fixes
        Fixed the tests to not fail in 1998.

    Documentation fixes
        Documented how to get around Micro$oft problem. Based on a mail by Patrick Stepp.

VERSION 5.20 (1997-10-12)
    (*) ISO 8601 support
        ISO 8601 dates are now parsed. This resulted in several other changes specified below.

    (!) (*) ParseDate formats removed
        As a result of ISO 8601 support, some formats which previously worked may no longer be
        parsed since they conflict with an ISO 8601 format. These include MM-DD-YY (conflicts with
        YY-MM-DD) and YYMMDD (conflicts with YYYYMM). MM/DD/YY still works, so the first form can be
        kept easily by changing "-" to "/". YYMMDD can be changed to YY-MM-DD before being parsed.
        Whenever parsing dates using dashes as separators, they will be treated as ISO 8601 dates.
        You can get around this by converting all dashes to slashes.

    (!) (*) Week day numbering
        The day numbering was changed from 0-6 (Sun-Sat) to 1-7 (Mon-Sun) to be ISO 8601 compatible.
        Weeks start on Monday (though this can be overridden using the FirstDay config variable) and
        the 1st week of the year contains Jan 4 (though it can be forced to contain Jan 1 with the
        Jan1Week1 config variable).

    New features
        Several new parsing formats added, including: "Friday" suggested by Rob Perelman "12th"
        suggested by Rob Perelman "last day of MONTH" suggested by Chadd Westhoff

        Added ParseDateString for speed (and simplicity for modifying ParseDate)

        Added %J and %K formats to UnixDate.

        Added Date_DaysInMonth.

    Bug fixes
        Reorganized ParseDate more efficiently.

        Fixed some incorrect uses of $in instead of $future in ParseDate. Thanks to Erik Corry.

        Added some speedups (more to come).

    Test fixes
        Cleaned up testing mechanism a bit and added tests for ISO 8601 formats.

VERSION 5.11 (1997-08-07)
    Version 5.11 was never released to CPAN.

    Bug fixes
        Added one more check for NT perl. Thanks to Rodney Haywood.

        Added some comments to help me keep my personal libraries up-to-date with respect to
        Date::Manip and vice-versa.

        Fixed a bug which showed up in French dates (though it could happen in other languages as
        well). Thanks to Georges Martin.

        Fixed a bug in DateCalc. Thanks to Thomas Winzig.

        Removed the "eval" statement from CheckFilePath which causes a suid c wrapper program to die
        when it calls a Date::Manip script. Thanks to Hank Hughes.

        Fixed a bug in business mode calculations. Thanks to Sterling Swartwout.

        Fixed a bug in which "1997023100:00:00" was accepted as valid. Thanks to Doug Emerald.

        Fixed a bug in which ConvTZ was not used correctly in ParseDate. Re-did portions of
        Date_ConvTZ. Thanks to Vivek Khera.

        Fixed a bug in business mode calculations. Thanks to Ian Duplisse.

        Added $^X check for Win95 perl. Thanks to Walter Soldierer.

        Missed one call to NormalizeDelta so the output was wrong. Thanks to Brad A. Buikema.

    Time zone fixes
        Added time zones. Paul Gillingwater, Rosella Antonio, Kang Taewook

VERSION 5.10 (1997-03-19)
    Bug fixes
        Cleaned up In, At, and On regexps.

        Added 2 checks for MSWin32 (date command and getpw* didn't work). Thanks to Alan Humphrey.

        Fixed two bugs in the DateCalc routines. Pointed out by Kevin Baker.

        Added a check for Windows_95. Thanks to Charlie W.

        Cleaned up checks for MacOS and Microsoft OS's. Hopefully I'm catching everything. Thanks to
        Charlie Wu for one more check.

        Fixed a typo which broke Time%Date (Date=dd%mmm%yy) format. Thanks to Timothy Kimball.

    Time zone fixes
        Fixed some problems with how "US/Eastern" type time zones were used. Thanks to Marvin
        Solomon.

    Test fixes
        Tests will now run regardless of the time zone you are in.

        Test will always read the DateManip.cnf file in t/ now.

        A failed test will now give slightly more information.

        DateManip.cnf file in t/ now sets ALL options to override any changes made in the Manip.pm
        file.

    Documentation fixes
        Added documentation for backwards incompatibilities to POD.

        Fixed some problems in POD documentation. Thanks to Marvin Solomon.

        Fixed minor POD error pointed out by John Perkins.

        Changed documentation for Date_IsWorkDay (it was quite confusing using a variable named
        $time). Thanks to Erik M. Schwartz.

        Fixed typo in documentation (midnight misspelled). Thanks to Timothy Kimball.

VERSION 5.09 (1997-01-28)
    Bug fixes
        Upgraded to 5.003_23 and fixed one problem associated with it.

        Used carp and changed all die's to confess.

        Replaced some UNIX commands with perl equivalents (date with localtime in the tests, pwd
        with cwd in the path routines).

        Cleaned up all routines working with the path.

    Test fixes
        Tests work again (broke in 5.08). Thanks to Alex Lewin and Michael Fuhr for running
        debugging tests.

VERSION 5.08 (1997-01-24)
    Bug fixes
        (*) Fixed serious bug in ConvTZ pointed out by David Hall.

        (*) Modified Date_ConvTZ (and documented it).

VERSION 5.07p2  1997-01-03
    Released two patches for 5.07.

    Bug fixes
        Fixed a bug where a delta component of "-0" would mess things up. Reported by Nigel Chapman.

    Time zone fixes
        (*) Can now understand PST8PDT type zones (but only in Date_TimeZone).

        Added lots of time zone abbreviations.

    Test fixes
        Fixed some tests (good for another year).

VERSION 5.07 (1996-12-10)
    (!) UnixDate "%s" format
        Used to return the number of seconds since 1/1/1970 in the current time zone. It now returns
        the number of seconds since 1/1/1970 GMT. The "%o" format was added which returns what "%s"
        previously did.

    (!) (*) Internal format of delta
        The format for the deltas returned by ParseDateDelta changed. Previously, each element of a
        delta had a sign attached to it (+1:+2:+3:+4:+5:+6). The new format removes all unnecessary
        signs by default (+1:2:3:4:5:6). Also, because of the way deltas are normalized (see
        documentation on ParseDateDelta), at most two signs are included. For backwards
        compatibility, the config variable DeltaSigns was added. If set to 1, all deltas include all
        6 signs.

    (!) (*) Date_Init arguments
        The format of the Date_Init calling arguments changed. The old method

           Date_Init($language,$format,$tz,$convtz);

        is still supported , but this support will likely disappear in the future. Use the new
        calling format instead:

           Date_Init("var=val","var=val",...);

        NOTE: The old format is no longer supported as of version 5.32 .

    (*) Added weeks to ParseDateDelta.
        Suggested by Mike Bassman. Note that since this is a late addition, I did not change the
        internal format of a delta. Instead, it is added to the days field.

    (*) Now reads a config file.
        Refer to the Date_Init documentation for details.

    (*) Added business mode.
        See documentation. Suggested by Mike Bassman.

    New features
        (*) Modified how deltas are normalized and added the DeltaSigns config variable.

        Added %q format "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS" to UnixDate. Requested by Rob Perelman. Also added %P
        format "YYYYMMDDHH:MM:SS".

        Added a new config variable to allow you to work with multiple internal formats (with and
        without colons). Requested by Rob Perelman. See Date_Init documentation.

        Added the following formats suggested by Andreas Johansson: Sunday week 22 [in 1996] [at
        12:00] 22nd Sunday [in 1996] [at 12:00] Sunday 22nd week [in 1996] [at 12:00]

        Added a new config variable to allow you to define the first day of the week. See Date_Init
        documentation.

        Added the following formats to ParseDate for convenience (some were suggested by Mike
        Bassman): next/last Friday [at time] next/last week [at time] in 2 weeks [at time] 2 weeks
        ago [at time] Friday in 2 weeks in 2 weeks on Friday Friday 2 weeks ago 2 weeks ago Friday

        Added Date_SecsSince1970GMT, moved the %s format to %o (secs since 1/1/70) and added %s
        format (secs since 1/1/70 GMT). Based on suggestions by Mark Osbourne. Note this introduces
        a minor backward incompatibility described above.

        Date_SetTime now works with international time separators.

        Added the %g format (%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z) for an RFC 1123 date. Suggested by Are Bryne.

        Added options to delete existing holidays and ignore global config file.

        Date_GetNext and Date_GetPrev now return the next/prev occurrence of a time as well as a
        day. Suggested by Are Bryne.

        In approximate mode, deltas now come out completely normalized (only 1 sign). Suggested by
        Rob Perelman.

        Added Date::Manip::InitDone so initialization isn't duplicated.

        Added a 3rd internal format to store YYYY-MM-DD HH:MN:SS (iso 8601).

        Added a config variable to allow you to work with 24 hour business days. Suggested by Mike
        Bassman.

        ParseDateDelta now returns "" rather than "+0:0:0:0:0:0" when there is an error.

    Bug fixes
        (*) The d:h:mn:s of ALL deltas are normalized.

        Huge number of code changes to clean things up.

        Subroutines now check to see if 4 digit years are entered. Suggested by Are Bryne.

        Added local($_) to all routines which use $_. Suggested by Rob Perelman.

        Complete rewrite of DateCalc.

        Fixed a bug where UnixDate %E format didn't work with single digit dates. Patch supplied by
        Jyrgen Nyrgaard.

        Fixed a bug where "today" was not converted to the correct time zone.

    Time zone fixes
        Fixed bug in Date_TimeZone where it didn't recognize +HHMN type time zones. Thanks to Are
        Bryne.

        Added WindowsNT check to Date_TimeZone to get around NT's weird date command. Thanks to Are
        Bryne.

        Fixed typo (CSD instead of CST).

        Fixed sign in military time zones making Date::Manip RFC 1123 compliant (except that time
        zone information is not stored in any format)

    Test fixes
        (*) Added test suite!

VERSION 5.06 (1996-10-25)
    New features
        Added "today at time" formats.

        ParseDateDelta now normalizes the delta as well as DateCalc.

        Added %Q format "YYYYMMDD" to UnixDate. Requested by Rob Perelman.

    Bug fixes
        Fixed another two places where a variable was declared twice using my (thanks to Ric
        Steinberger).

        Fixed a bug where fractional seconds weren't parsed correctly.

        Fixed a bug where "noon" and other special times were not parsed in the "which day of month"
        formats.

        Fixed a minor bug where a few matches were case sensitive.

        The command "date +%Z" doesn't work on SunOS machines (and perhaps others) so 5.05 is
        effectively broken. 5.06 released to fix this. Reported by Rob Perelman.

VERSION 5.05 (1996-10-11)
    New features
        Changed deltas to be all positive or all negative when produced by DateCalc. Suggested by
        Steve Braun

        Added DateManipVersion routine.

        (*) Parses RFC 822 dates (thanks to J.B. Nicholson-Owens for suggestion).

        Parses ctime() date formats (suggested by Matthew R. Sheahan).

        Now supports times like "noon" and "midnight".

    Bug fixes
        Fixed bug introduced in 5.04 when default day set to 1. When no date given, have day default
        to today rather than 1. It only defaults to one if a partial date is given.

        Fixed bug where Date_DaysSince999 returned the wrong value (the error did not affect any
        other functions in Date::Manip due to the way it was called and the nature of the error).
        Pointed out by Jason Baker

        Dates with commas in them are now read properly.

        Fixed two places where a variable was declared twice using my (thanks to Ric Steinberger).

        Hopefully fixed installation problems.

        Got rid of the last (I think) couple of US specific strings.

        Fixed bug in Date_SetTime (didn't work with $hr,$min,$sec < 10).

        Added ModuloAddition routine and simplified DateCalc.

    Time zone fixes
        (*) Now supports time zones.

        (*) Added Date_ConvTZ routine for time zone support.

        Date_TimeZone will now also check `date '+%Z'` suggested by Aharon Schkolnik.

    Language fixes
        Added Swedish translation (thanks to Andreas Johansson

        The time separators are now language specific so the French can write "10h30" and the Swedes
        can write "10.30". Suggested by Andreas Johansson.

    Documentation fixes
        Fixed bad mistake in documentation (use Date::Manip instead of use DateManip) pointed out by
        tuc AT valhalla.com

        Minor improvements to documentation.

        Documented the 'sort within a sort' bug.

        Fixed type in documentation/README pointed out by James K. Bence.

VERSION 5.04 (1996-08-01)
    New features
        Added support for fractional seconds (as generated by Sybase). They are parsed and ignored.
        Added by Kurt Stephens

    Bug fixes
        Fixed bugs reported by J.B. Nicholson-Owens "Tue Jun 25 1996" wasn't parsed correctly
        (regexp was case sensitive) full day names not parsed correctly the default day in
        ErrorCheck should be 1, NOT currd since when currd>28, it may not be a valid date for the
        month

VERSION 5.03 (1996-07-17)
    Bug fixes
        Fixed a couple of bugs in UnixDate.

        Declared package variables to avoid warning "Identifier XXX used only once". Thanks to Peter
        Bray for the suggestion.

VERSION 5.02 (1996-07-15)
    New features
        (*) Added some internationalization (most of the routines had to be modified at least
        slightly)

    Bug fixes
        Fixed a bug where repeated calls to ParseDate("today") was not reset

        Replaced the %Date::Manip::Date variable with a large number of other, more flexible
        variables

        Rewrote the Init routine

VERSION 5.01 (1996-06-24)
    New features
        Added %F format to UnixDate. Rob Perelman

        Added "Date at Time" types

        Weekdays can be entered and checked

        Two digit years fall in the range CurrYear-89 to CurrYear+10

    Bug fixes
        Reworked a number of the ParseDate regular expressions to make them more flexible

    Documentation fixes
        Fixed a typo (Friday misspelled Fridat). Rob Perelman

        Documentation problem for \$err in DateCalc. Rob Perelman

VERSION 5.00 (1996-06-21)
    (*) Switched to a package.
        Patch supplied by Peter Bray: renamed to Date::Manip changed version number to 2 decimal
        places added POD documentation

        Thanks to Peter Bray, Randal Schwartz, Andreas Koenig for suggestions

    Bug fixes
        Fixed a bug pointed out by Peter Bray where it was complaining of an uninitialized variable.

VERSION 4.3 (1995-10-26)
    New features
        Added "which dofw in mmm" formats to ParseDate. Mark Dedlow

    Bug fixes
        Added a bugfix of Adam Nevins where "12:xx pm" used to be parsed "24:xx:00".

VERSION 4.2 (1995-10-23)
    New features
        UnixDate will now return a scalar or list depending on context

        ParseDate/ParseDateDelta will now take a scalar, a reference to a scalar, or a reference to
        an array

        (*) Simple time zone handling

        (*) Added Date_SetTime, Date_GetPrev, Date_GetNext

    Bug fixes
        Added copyright notice (requested by Tim Bunce)

VERSION 4.1 (1995-10-18)
    New features
        (*) Added DateCalc

    Bug fixes
        Changed %DATE_ to %DateManip::Date

        (*) Rewrote ParseDateDelta

VERSION 4.0 (1995-08-13)
    (*) First public release

    New features
        Added time first formats to ParseDate

    Bug fixes
        (*) Switched to perl 5

        Cleaned up ParseDate, ParseDateDelta

VERSION 3.0 (1995-05-03)
    New features
        Added today/tomorrows/etc. formats

        (*) Added UnixDate

        (*) Added ParseDateDelta

    Bug fixes
        Added %DATE_ global variable to clean some stuff up

        Simplified several routines

VERSION 2.0 (1995-04-17)
    New features
        Included ideas from Time::ParseDate (David Muir Sharnoff)

        Included ideas from date.pl 3.2 (Terry McGonigal)

        (*) Added seconds to ParseDate

    Bug fixes
        Made error checking much nicer

VERSION 1.2 (1995-03-31)
    New features
        Added a few date formats

    Bug fixes
        Made months case insensitive

VERSION 1.1 (1995-02-08)
    New features
        Added leap year checking

        Both "Feb" and "February" formats available

VERSION 1.0 (1995-01-20)
    (*) Initial release
        Though not released to the public, the initial released combined routines from several
        scripts into one library.

BUGS AND QUESTIONS
    Please refer to the Date::Manip::Problems documentation for information on submitting bug
    reports or questions to the author.

SEE ALSO
    Date::Manip - main module documentation

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

AUTHOR
    Sullivan Beck (sbeck AT cpan.org)