version 0.007; 2010-11-21

• bugfix: require bugfixed version of Math::BigRat (for construction from decimal fraction strings)
• after an attempted download of leap second data fails, retry after one to two hours, rather than the 20 to 22 days that we wait before attempting another update following a successful download
• check for required Perl version at runtime
• avoid latent bug of passing magic variables $1 et al into functions where in the future they might unexpectedly change value
• update built-in data to 2011-07-01
• use full stricture in test suite
• in Build.PL, explicitly declare configure-time requirements
• remove bogus "exit 0" from Build.PL
• add MYMETA.yml to .cvsignore

version 0.006; 2009-05-19

• be more stringent in parsing leap second data files
• use simpler "parent" pragma in place of "base"
• in documentation, use the term "truth value" instead of the less precise "boolean"
• drop prototypes from method subs (where the prototypes have no effect)
• update built-in data to 2010-01-01
• in tests, avoid unreliable "\d" and "\S" regexp elements
• use full stricture in Build.PL
• quote a stray dependency version number in Build.PL

version 0.005; 2007-09-17

• bugfix: in Time::UTC, ensure that the Time::UTC::Segment that is loaded is recent enough to have the $SIG{__DIE__} bugfix
• download Mills-style leap-seconds.list, which contains an explicit expiry date, in preference to USNO tai-utc.dat
• remove from .cvsignore items that don't occur with Module::Build

version 0.004; 2007-09-15

• bugfix: override any ambient $SIG{__DIE__} handler when using eval { }
• update built-in data to 2008-07-01
• use "base" pragma to import Exporter behaviour
• test POD syntax and coverage, and rename some internal functions to satisfy the coverage test
• build with Module::Build instead of ExtUtils::MakeMaker
• complete dependency list
• include signature in distribution
• in documentation, separate "license" section from "copyright" section

version 0.003; 2007-02-02

• new functions utc_day_to_mjdn() and utc_mjdn_to_day() for interconversion with MJDNs for interoperability with other code that deals with UT days
• update built-in data to 2008-01-01
• revise and expand history section in the documentation
• in documentation, reference Date::JD, Time::TAI, and Time::UTC::Now
• test explicitly for correct class of results

version 0.002; 2006-08-03

• include "use" directive in synopsis for Time::UTC::Segment
• add test t/builtin.t of whether builtin TAI-UTC knowledge works at all
• use "=> 0" instead of "=> undef" in unversioned dependencies in Makefile.PL
• don't include underscore in string version of module version numbers in Makefile.PL

version 0.001; 2006-05-18

• new functions utc_day_to_cjdn() and utc_cjdn_to_day() for interconversion with CJDNs for interoperability with calendar code
• download new data if time appears to go backwards
• download new data by HTTP instead of FTP, for performance and to get through NAT and firewalls better
• use integer arithmetic
• update built-in data to 2007-01-01
• bugfix: foreach_utc_segment_when_complete() wasn't exported
• tests for utc_check_instant() and the "when_complete" mechanism
• small correction to description of TAI in man page
• add Date::ISO8601 to "see also" list
• synch description in man page with README

version 0.000; 2005-01-25

• initial released version