Copyright (c) 1995-1999 Sullivan Beck. All rights reserved.

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 <[email protected]>

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.

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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:
[email protected]

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.
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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 ([email protected])