Copyright (c) 1995-1999 Sullivan Beck. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. For information on installing Date::Manip, see the INSTALL file included in the distribution. For other documentation, see the Manip.pod file. Please send questions or bug reports to me rather than posting them to a newsgroup since I may miss them there, BUT read the next paragraph before you automatically start firing off email to me! If you have questions about Date::Manip, refer to the Date::Manip pod file. Don't know what I'm talking about? Read the perlpod man page. Alternately, an online version of the Date::Manip man page is included in my home page given below. PLEASE read the man page thoroughly before posting any questions about Date::Manip to a newsgroup or emailing me. If you've done this, I'll be glad to answer any questions not covered or unclear in the man page. ** IMPORTANT NOTE (5.35) ** I am considering going OO... so everyone should use the appropriate functions (UnixDate, Date_Cmp, Delta_Format) to extract information from dates and deltas. Any script which parses a date or delta as a string will stop working when/if I make this change. Even if I don't, the internal format for both will change, so the above routines should be used. Also, the Date_DaysSince999 routine is deprecated (replace by Date_DaysSince1BC) and will be removed in one of the next releases. Notes for version 5.36: Primarily a bug fix release. Nothing major, but I want to get the fixes into circulation. Notes for version 5.35: Bug fixes and documentaion changes. Added Romanian, Italian; corrections to Swedish, German translation. Modified Date_GetPrev/Date_GetNext to take $curr=2. Added Apache log file format "dd/mmm/yyyy:hh:mm:ss (time zone)". Added OS/2 support. Deprecated the function Date_DaysSince999. Fixed support for years 0000-0999. Many changes to recurrences including: *** Flags are now supported Added test suite Added support for Easter Fixed a bug where base/date0/date1 not treated correctly Added some timezones. Improved holiday support considerably: *** Added support for recurrences and one-year-only holidays Fixed Veteren's day, added Good Friday (off by default) Added Date_IsHoliday routine. *** Added the PathSep config variable to improve support for non-Unix paths. *** Date_Init can now return a list of config variables if called in array context. Added Moscow timezones. Andrey A. Chernov Backwards incompatibilities: Version 5.35 Deprecated the function Date_DaysSince999. It's been replaced by Date_DaysSince1BC. It will disappear in the next version. *** Added the PathSep variable which may cause problems on WinXX platforms with old config files where a colon is assumed. ############################################################################ If you would like to stay informed about future versions of this module, and especially if you are interested in beta testing future versions, please let me know by email at: sbeck@cpan.org The newest version (which should be considered a beta version) is available through my home page: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~sbeck/ Feel free to try it out. The current (non-beta) version of this module is available from you nearest CPAN site and is NOT available from my home page. I will announce new (non-beta) releases in comp.lang.perl.misc and comp.lang.perl.announce. ############################################################################ All documentation is now contained in the Manip.pod file so I don't have to keep it up-to-date in two places. AUTHOR Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org)