Add option to Recur: ignore holidays then flags like NBD ignore holidays (but count weekends) When calculating holidays, use this option by default to simplify holidays. Then, order of definitions is not important. Add options: onlyiso8601, etc. to parse no-delta-secs (not delta as a plain number) no-timezone Can I reduce the number of timezone modules loaded when parsing a date with an abbreviation or offset by loading one and testing it before loading a second? Make sure the following work: 1*12:0:24:0:0:0*FW1 = Christmas Day (observed) December 25 2015 = Christmas Day Add a new type of recurrence (???): *Christmas Day*NWD Add ability to supply holidays via. a list rather than a config file. ksublondie on perlmonks ######################################################################## # Deprecated variables: 03/01/2017 TZ Delete Obj.pm line 89 block ######################################################################## # +1 significant release ######################################################################## Check performance if changing sub ... { return &sub(...) } to goto &sub(...) In Recur.pm, handle encodings in parse Add delta.parse_LANG tests Add UseTZ = %all use all timezones = %local use local timezone = Z1 Z2 ... use zones Z1, Z2, etc. (one can be %local) Only affects parsing. Add ways to get timezone in cygwin Cache Date::Manip::TZ::zone for ($abbrev,isdst), ($abbrev,$isdst,$offset), other??? Profile it and look for optimizations. Date::Manip::Base : get rid of _calc_date_time_strings _delta_convert Benchmarks Modules 5.x 6.00 6.00 parse_format DateCalc TimeDate ??? Tests 10,000 dates (parse) time + size 10,000 dates (parse + 2 adds + 1 unix date) time + size 10,000 scripts (parse 1 date + 2 adds + 1 unix date each) time Rewrite Problems.pod (Date Manip is slow) Clear out all problems from CPAN Methods which require a valid object (secs_since_1970_GMT) should exit instead of trying to perform the operation if the object is invalid. RT #60662 (Matt Blythe) ######################################################################## # +2 significant release ######################################################################## Everywhere a timezone can be entered, allow: zone abbrev offset followed by an option: std either STD or DST time, test STD first (default always) dst either STD or DST time, test DST first stdonly only test STD dstonly only test DST Change Date::Manip::Base so that $date input can be reference or string. Clear as much of the backlog of suggestions as possible. ######################################################################## # TO DO ######################################################################## Make sure there is a correspondance between: time,localtime,gmtime Date_SecsSince1970,Date_SecsSince1970GMT UnixDate(...,"%s"),UnixDate(...,"%u") and document it all. Support timezones of the format +500. David Coppit Make sure that &DateCalc($date1,"") returns an error. Jim Anderson Change the Jan1Week1 variable to accept the values "m1-m7" (1st week contains Jan X) or "d1-d7" (1st week contains the 1st dX day of week ... so d1 means that the 1st week of the year contains the 1st Monday). Free up the '%u', '%h', and '%X' printf formats. Reserve '%X' for extended formats (%Xa, %Xb, ...). ######################################################################## # TO CONSIDER ######################################################################## Special date formats in language file: extra{LABEL} = [ ... ] extra words of type LABEL offset_date => FORMAT => 'OFFSET' where FORMAT is similar to parse_format %LABEL is a regexp with any of the words OFFSET can include %y, %d, %w, %m, %h, %mn, $s in them same for offset_time, times, and others ex. offset_time => { "%h o'clock" => "%h:00:00" } Support some of the special Russian dates supplied by Yuri Nikulin Add a method: ($date0,$date1) = $date->week_range(); where $date0 and $date1 are the start and end of the week containing $date. Ha Quach Add Date_LocaleInit which calls Date_Init and then sets DateFormat config varialbe. Benjamin Low Essentially, I use POSIX::strftime to print a known date in the locale 'native' format ('%x'), and parse the result to determine d/m/y, m/d/y, or y/m/d. Here's what I do for Date::Parse, perhaps for your module you could just substitute a default value for DateFormat: sub _dmorder # determine the "natural" day/month order for the current locale # - returns a sub which will expect two arguments (month, day) and # return the arguments swapped as appropriate { # %x - preferred (year, month, day) representation # - some examples: 1999-12-31, 31/12/99, 30.12.1999, 12/31/99 my @d = (POSIX::strftime('%x', 0, 0, 0, 31, 12-1, 99) =~ /(\d+)\D+(\d+)\D+(\d+)/); # check we got one each of "31", "12", and "[19]99" back $@ = "couldn't determine day,month order (got [@d])"; warn("$@\n"), return sub { @_ } unless @d == 3; my %d; $d{$1} = $d{$2} = $d{$3} = 1; warn("$@\n"), return sub { @_ } unless ($d{31} and $d{12} and ($d{99} or $d{1999})); if ($1 == 31) { $@ = undef; return sub { ($_[1], $_[0]) } }; # d/m/y if ($2 == 31) { $@ = undef; return sub { ($_[0], $_[1]) } }; # m/d/y if ($3 == 31) { $@ = undef; return sub { ($_[0], $_[1]) } }; # y/m/d return sub { @_ }; # undetermined, use default } *dmorder = _dmorder(); # and then later in Parse::Date, after month/day regexps (\d+/\d+)... - ($month, $day) = ($1, $2); becomes... + ($month, $day) = dmorder($1, $2); Make DateFormat variable handle y/m/d y/d/m m/d/y and d/m/y formats in addition to m/d vs. d/m . Also, make "%D" and "%x" UnixDate formats use this variable. Benjamin Low Make the following work for ParseDate Adrian Conte: 1 epoch epoch 1 -1 epoch epoch -1 Make work weeks able to start and stop on arbitrary days (even across weekends). Mohammed Saggaf Switch to Math::BigInt instead of using "no integer". Vishal Bhatia Use autoloader. Ted Ashton Better support for fractional seconds. RT 61535 ######################################################################## # GRANULARITY ######################################################################## $flag=&Date_GranularityTest($date,$base,$granularity [,$flags] [$width]) $date and $base are dates $granularity and $width are deltas $flags is a list of flags To test if a day is one of every other Friday (starting at Friday Feb 7, 1997), go: $base=&ParseDate("Friday Feb 7 1997"); $date=&ParseDate("..."); $granularity=&ParseDateDelta("+ 2 weeks"); $flag=&Date_Granularity($date,$base,$granularity,"exact"); If $flag is 1, the $date is a 2nd Friday from Feb 7. The most important field in $granularity is the last non-zero element. In the above example, 2 weeks returns the delta 0:0:14:0:0:0 so the last non-zero element is days with a value of 14. If $flags is empty, $date is checked to see if it occurs some multiple of 14 days before or after $base. In this case, hourse, minutes, and seconds are completely ignored. If $flags contains the words "before" or "after", $date must come before or after $base. If $flags contains any other options, or if $width is passed in, the test is treated in an approximate way. A flag of "approx" forces this behavior. If $width is not passed in in an approximate comparison, it defaults to 1 in the last non-zero element. Here, the default width is 1 day. If the flag "half" is used, the width (default or passed in) is halved. For example if $width is 1 day, add a multiple of $granularity to $base to get as close to $date as possible. If $date is within plus or minus 1 day of this new base, the test is successful. A flag of "plus" or "minus" means that $date must be with plus 1 day or within minus one day of this new base. Flags of "before" or "after" work as well. @list=&Date_GranularityList($date,$N,$granularity) Returns a list of $N dates AFTER $date which are created by adding $granularity to $date $N times. If $N<0, it returns $N dates BEFORE $date (the list is in chronological order). Make it work in business mode as well which will return only working days. Example, every other friday and it can be told that if friday falls on a holiday to return either thursday or the following monday or leave it out.