Revision history for Date-Baha-i

0.1902 2010.06.09

• Test with normalized date format to (hopefully) fix from_bahai.t.

0.1901 2010.06.07

• Forgot to flesh-out my Makefile.PL. Oops.

0.19 2010.06.06

• Refactored with Module::Starter.
• Removed needless POD.
• Removed zero padding in hopes that my failing test will pass...

** And now: Reverse history! **

0.01 Tue Mar 4 17:53:30 2003

• original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options

  -X -n Date::Baha::i

0.02 Wed Mar 5 2003

• Used constants in place of mystery literals.
• Moved the final date computations to a seperate, private subroutine.
• Fixed feeble, broken test case.

0.03 Wed Mar 5 2003

• Added a time zone offset key to the date () return.
• Made date () return a hash, instead of a hasref.
• Added functions to return the names of cycles, years, months, days, the days of the week, and hold days.
• Updated the test suite, of course.

0.03.1 Wed Mar 5 2003

• Ack! I kept forgetting to add Date::Calc to the Makefile.PL dependencies. sob

0.04 Wed Mar 5 2003

• Added a Gregorian to Baha'i date function.
• Used Exporter.
• Updated the documentation and test suite, of course.

0.04.1 Thu Mar 6 2003

• Fixed incomplete documentation.

0.04.2 Thu Mar 6 2003

• Fixed export list.
• Gave _foo type names to "private" functions.
• Cleaned up documentation.

0.04.3 Fri Mar 7 2003

• Oof! I forgot to test install the package! Fixed the name of a private function call.
• Cleaned up documentation.

0.05 Fri Mar 7 2003

• Cleaned up and enhanced documentation.
• Returned friendly strings with the date names and ordinals, given scalar context for the date () and greg_to_bahai () functions.
• Updated test suite accordingly.

0.06 Fri Mar 21 2003 - Naw Ruz!

• Oof! Corrected the year calculation.
• Exported the as_string () function.
• Enhanced the as_string () function with diverse output representations.
• Updated documentation and test suite accordingly.
• Made the test suite non-lame. Yay!

0.06.1 Sat Mar 22 2003

• Cleaned up documentation.

0.06.2 Sat Mar 22 2003

• Oof! Fixed the syntax of a function call to which I had changed to interface.
• Deleted the timezone key from the returned date_hash in the test suite.

0.07 Sat Mar 22 2003

• Used gmtime in the date and greg_to_bahai functions, if asked to.
• Incremented the day number if we are using localtime. XXX: Why??
• Made tests use gmtime.

0.08 Sun Mar 23 2003

• Corrected the "addition of one day" in the date () function.
• Fixed the syntax of the HOLY_DAYS constant hash.
• Added the current holy day to the date, if the day is on one.
• Added a next_holy_day () function.

0.08.1 Sun Mar 23 2003

• Fixed documentation.
• Added a reminder to integrate with DateTime to the TO DO section.

0.09 Tue Apr 29 2003

• Fixed documentation.
• Replaced the Date::Calc::Date_to_Time () function with Time::Local in the greg_to_bahai () function.

0.10 Tue Apr 29 2003

• Ack. I'm a dork. I don't even need the greg_to_bahai() function. It has a dumb name too...
• In the same purge, I got rid of the stupid conversion to epoch seconds and back.

0.11 Tue Apr 29 2003

• Added the first and twelfth days of Ridvan to the HOLY_DAYS hash.
• Corrected the off-by-one error in the invertholy_days() function.
• Updated the test script, accordingly.

0.11.1 Wed Apr 30 2003

• Cleaned and fixed documentation.

0.11.2 Mon May 5 2003

• Fixed documentation a bit.

0.11.3 Wed May 7 2003

• Oof. Fixed the incorrect holy_day documentation.

0.12 Sun May 18 2003

• Fixed a misnaming that would miscalulate the holy day in a leap year Ayyam-i-Ha.
• Fixed the start date for the Ayyam-i-Ha HOLY_DAYS entry.
• Changed "timestamp" to "epoch".
• Renamed the date function to "to_bahai" and added sub date { goto &to_bahai }.
• Added a ymd from_bahai function.
• Replaced the heart of the to_bahai function with some simple date comparison code.
• Removed cumbersome helper functions that were only used in the to_bahai function.
• Made the next_holy_day function return a string in scalar context and a hash (instead of a hash reference) in array context.
• Cleaned up random bits of other code, in general.
• Fixed and enhanced documentation.
• Retooled the test suite to test every date in a Baha'i year for the to_bahai and from_bahai functions.

0.12.1 Sun May 18 2003

• Corrected and enhanced documentation.

0.12.2 Tue May 20 2003

• Cleaned a bit of code.
• Fixed as_string.t

0.12.3 Wed May 21 2003

• Fixed, pruned and augmented documentation.

0.13 Sun May 25 2003

• Deprecated (i.e. removed) the sub date.
• Fixed a sematic error in the "short alpha" clause of the as_string function.
• Removed the dow number from the "short numeric" as_string output.
• Changed the [month, day] HOLY_DAYS value to ['month.day'].
• Fixed the invertholy_days function accordingly.
• Removed the date returned by the next_holy_day function. Also, I made the function only operate in scalar context.
• Fixed documentation.

0.13.1 Fri Jul 11 2003

• Excised the unnecessary =head1 ABSTRACT section.

0.14 Fri Jul 18 2003

• Replaced Lingua::Num2Word (which mysteriously prints absolutely nothing under my Mac OS X Perl 5.6.1) with Lingua::EN::Numbers (which works perfectly).
• Tweezed documentation.
• Moved i.pm under lib/Date/Baha/.

0.15 Thu Jul 24 2003

• Ack! Forgot a Lingua::Num2Word under the as_string tz clauses.
• Added the (superior to the Date::Calc) tz_offset() and tz_name() functions (which made as_string() rock finally) from Time::Zone.

0.15.1 Thu Jul 24 2003

• Whoops. Added Time::Zone to the Makefile.PL (and README dependencies).

0.1502 Sun Sep 27 2003

• Updated POD.
• Put the version on it's own line.

0.16 First day of Ayyam-i-ha year 160

• Got rid of the annoying "pre-open-paren space after sub" call syntax.
• Made next_holy_day() work without arguments and also return the (Gregorian) date of the holy day.

0.1601 Sat Dec 1 2007

• Fixed the "non-numeric" test string that was changed since I last worked on this.

0.17 Sun Dec 2 2007

• Improved the as_string() English with TorgoX's Lingua::EN::Numbers::Years package.
• Why am I computing timezone logic? This is a date module not a time module. TZ is out.

0.18 Sun Dec 2 2007

• Improved as_string() yet again with num2en_ordinal().
• Updated tests for this.
• Removed cruft from the Makefile.

0.1801 Sun Dec 2 2007

• Repaired crusty POD. No code changes.

0.1802 Mon Dec 3 2007

• Whoops. Need to require 5.6 in the Makefile.