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