Version 6.4 07.03.2015
+ Fixed t/f016.t, t/f027.t and t/f028.t which started failing on 01/01/2015
+ Fixed t/f035.t which gave a warning "Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated"
with Perl 5.21.x
Pkgsrc changes:
- Adjust dependencies
Upstream changes:
What's new in version 6.3:
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+ Changed "Mktime()" to use "POSIX::mktime()"
+ Fixed the bug that "Date::Calc::PP" was never tested
when "Date::Calc::XS" is installed
pkgsrc changes:
- Adjusting dependencies
Upstream changes:
Version 6.2 16.10.2009
+ Split the "Date::Calc" distribution into a pure-Perl and a C/XS part
Version 6.1 15.10.2009
+ United "Date::Calc" and "Date::Pcalc" into a single distribution
+ Fixed Polish names of months and days of week (RT ticket #14159)
Upstream changesi (since 5.8):
Version 6.0 07.10.2009
+ Added new functions "N_Delta_YMDHMS()", "Add_N_Delta_YMD()"
and "Add_N_Delta_YMDHMS()" to "Date::Calc"
+ Added more tests to "t/f037.t" for these new functions
+ Added a new "normalized" mode to "Date::Calc::Object" which
uses the new functions "N_Delta_YMD()", "N_Delta_YMDHMS()",
"Add_N_Delta_YMD()" and "Add_N_Delta_YMDHMS()"
+ Added test scripts "t/m012.t" and "t/m013.t" for this new mode
+ The language can now be set individually for each function
in "Date::Calc" that requires it (through a new optional
parameter; the default continues to be a global setting
for backward compatibility); the affected functions are:
"Decode_Month()", "Decode_Day_of_Week()", "Compressed_to_Text()",
"Date_to_Text()", "Date_to_Text_Long()", "Calendar()",
"Month_to_Text()", "Day_of_Week_to_Text()", "Day_of_Week_Abbreviation()",
"Decode_Date_EU()", "Decode_Date_US()", "Decode_Date_EU2()",
"Decode_Date_US2()", "Parse_Date()".
+ BEWARE that the interface of "DateCalc.c" has changed!
+ Module "Date::Calc::Object" has been changed similarly
+ Module "Date::Calendar::Year" has also been adapted accordingly
+ Many test scripts have been changed to reflect the modifications
in "Date::Calc", "Date::Calc::Object" and "Date::Calendar::Year"
and more test cases have been added
+ Updated the documentation to reflect all changes
+ Updated version numbers of dependencies in "t/f000.t"
Upstream changes:
Version 5.8 12.09.2009
+ Added a new function "N_Delta_YMD()"
+ Added a new test script "t/f037.t"
+ Updated the "Calc.pod" manual page accordingly
+ Renamed "calendar.cgi" in the "examples"
subdirectory to "calendar.pl"
+ Added a new CGI script named "datecalc.pl"
to the "examples" subdirectory
Pkgsrc changes:
- Adjust dependencies
Upstream changes:
Version 5.7 23.08.2009
+ Fixed "october" => "oktober" in Dutch
+ Disabled the special abbreviated names
of the days of the week in Portuguese
+ Made the days which form the weekend con-
figurable in "Calendar.pm" and "Year.pm"
+ Added some test cases for this new feature
in "t/m008.t"
+ The file "examples/calendar.cgi" now
also supports this new feature
+ Updated "README.txt" and "INSTALL.txt"
and the dependency on "Bit::Vector" 7.0
+ Added an additional "README.htm" file to this
distribution highlighting its key points
+ Updated the documentation of "Date::Calc",
"Date::Calendar", "Date::Calendar::Profiles",
"Date::Calendar::Year" and "Date::Object"
+ See the new module "Date::Calc::Util" (which
is available separately) for all the shortcuts
you ever wanted to have in "Date::Calc"
pkgsrc changes:
- Adding license (perl5 license, according to module's doc)
- Adjust dependencies according to META.yml
- Removing obsoleted deletion of formerly included Carp::Clan
Upstream changes:
Version 5.6 28.07.2009
+ Made the module MacOS X compatible
+ Made some tiny changes to the documentation
Version 5.5 was skipped due to an unauthorized upload by someone else
+ Added compiler directives for C++.
+ Removed "Carp::Clan" from the distribution (available separately).
+ Fixed bug in initialization of "Date::Calendar::Year" objects.
+ Added method "tags()" to "Date::Calendar" and "Date::Calendar::Year".
+ Fixed the formula for "Labor Day" in the U.S. to "1/Mon/Sep".
+ Added a new recipe to the "Date::Calc" documentation.
+ Added Romanian to the list of languages supported by "Date::Calc".
+ Changed the example script "calendar.cgi" to highlight the name
which led to a given date being a holiday.
+ Fixed the Polish entries in "Date::Calc".
+ Added a few commemorative days to the Norwegian calendar profile.
+ Added "use bytes" to all Perl files to avoid problems on systems
not using the standard locale "C".
+ Fixed test 5 of t/m005.t to (hopefully) work under other locales.
+ Simplified the error message handlers in "Calc.xs".
+ Changed the Polish profiles from ISO-Latin-2 to ISO-Latin-1.
+ Fixed the broken tests in "t/f034.t" and "t/m006.t".
+ Synchronized "Carp::Clan" and "ToolBox.h" with "Bit::Vector" 6.2.
+ Integrated modifications needed for MacOS / MacPerl.
+ Added new method "normalize()" (Date::Calc::Object).
+ Added a new test script "t/m011.t" for "normalize()".
+ Added a calendar profile for Mexico (Date::Calendar::Profiles).
+ Little additions to and corrections of the documentation (Date::Calc).
+ Added Polish (Date::Calc) and a calendar profile for Poland.
+ Added Hungarian (Date::Calc).
+ Added some more commemorative days to the profile of Brazil.
More interesting changes since 4.3:
Module "Date::Calc":
+ Added the following new functions:
* check_time()
* Delta_YMD()
* Delta_YMDHMS()
* Add_Delta_YM()
* Add_Delta_YMDHMS()
* Normalize_DHMS()
* This_Year()
* Gmtime()
* Localtime()
* Mktime()
* Timezone()
* Date_to_Time()
* Time_to_Date()
* Fixed_Window()
* Moving_Window()
* ISO_LC()
* ISO_UC()
+ Added support for Norwegian.
+ Added support for Swedish.
+ Added support for Danish.
+ Added support for Finnish.
+ Changed the month names of some languages to lower case.
+ Changed the french "long" date format to a more popular form.
+ Fixed the broken parsing of special ISO-Latin-1 characters
in Date::Calc (replaced <ctype.h> with better solution).
- Locales wouldn't help here, because "Decode_Language()" must
work with any locale setting. Moreover, setting a language in
Date::Calc would also require to set the proper corresponding
locale in the current environment, which may not be available
on the current system. The new solution works independently
of any locale and with ALL languages (in ISO-Latin-1).
+ Changed the function "Add_Delta_YMD()" to have a more intuitive,
consistent and reversible behaviour. This might break existing
code, though. (To get the old behaviour, use the new function
"Add_Delta_YM()" plus "Add_Delta_Days()" thereafter instead.)
+ Added an optional boolean parameter "orthodox" to "Calendar()"
for calendars starting with Sunday instead of Monday.
+ Changed the behaviour of the "Decode_Date_*()" set of functions:
if the current year is available on the system, then a "moving
window" strategy is applied to year numbers < 100; otherwise
it defaults to the previous behaviour (see version 4.3 below).
+ Changed the "Week_of_Year()" function: In scalar context, it
now returns just the week number. BEWARE, this is a DANGEROUS
feature - see the manual page for why this is so!
Module "Date::Calc::Object":
+ Added the module Date::Calc::Object, an object-oriented add-on
to Date::Calc with overloaded operators.
Modules "Date::Calendar[::(Year|Profiles)]":
+ Added the modules Date::Calendar, Date::Calendar::Year and
Date::Calendar::Profiles, for calculations which need to
take holidays into account (and for generating calendars).
