chronic/HISTORY.md

0.10.2 / 2013-09-09

• Fix 1.8.7 support (due to be dropped in 0.11.0)
• Bugfix for times with negative zones

0.10.1 / 2013-08-27

• Support ActiveSupport::TimeZone (#209, #208)

0.10.0 / 2013-08-25

• Chronic will parse subseconds correctly for all supported date/time formats (#195, #198 and #200)
• Support for date format: dd.mm.yyyy (#197)
• Option :hours24 to parse as 24 hour clock (#201 and #202)
• :guess option allows to specify which part of Span to return. (accepted values false,true,:begin, :middle, :end)
• Replace rcov with SimpleCov for coverage generation
• Add more tests
• Various changes in codebase (#202 and #206)

0.9.1 / 2013-02-25

• Ensure Chronic strips periods from day portions (#173)
• Properly numerize "twelfth", "twentieth" etc. (#172, James McKinney)
• Ensure Chronic is compatible with Ruby 2.0.0 (#165, Ravil Bayramgalin)

0.9.0 / 2012-12-21

• Implement Chronic::Parser class and create an instance of this class instead of leaving all data in the class level of Chronic
• Various bug fixes
• Add support for excel date formats (#149, @jmondo)
• Added support for time expressions such as '10 till' or 'half past two' (#146, @chicagogrooves)
• Add support for RepeaterDayName, RepeaterMonthName, Ordinal/ScalarDay and Time (#153, @kareemk)

0.8.0 / 2012-09-16

• Support parsing " of this month" (#109)
• Support parsing ISO 8601 format (#115)
• Support parsing "on " without a timestamp (#117)
• Fix time parsing regexp (#125)
• Support time when parsing dd-mm-yyy (#126)
• Allow anchor handler to accept any separators (at, on) (#128)
• Support parsing EXIF date format (#112)
• Start using minitest for testing
• Ensure periods are interpreted as colons (#81).
• Support month/day and day/month parsing (#59).
• Support day(scalar)-month(name)-year(scalar) (#99).
• Handle text starting with 'a' or 'an' (#101, @steveburkett).
• Ensure post medium timestamps are correctly formatted (#89)

0.6.7 / 2012-01-31

• Handle day, month names with scalar day and year (Joe Fiorini)
• Ensure 31st parses correctly with day names (Joe Fiorini)

0.6.6 / 2011-11-23

• Chronic.parse('thur') no longer returns nil (@harold)

0.6.5 / 2011-11-04

• Fix bug when parsing ordinal repeaters (#73)
• Added handler support for day_name month_name (@imme5150)
• Fix bug when parsing strings prefixed with PM

0.6.4 / 2011-08-08

• Fixed bug where 'noon' was parsed as 00:00 rather than 12:00 with :ambiguous_time_range => :none (Vladimir Chernis)
• Add support for handling '2009 May 22nd'
• Add the ability to handle scalar-day/repeater-month-name as well as ordinals

0.6.3 / 2011-08-01

• Ensure 'thu' is parsed as Thursday for 1.8.7 generic timestamp

0.6.2 / 2011-07-28

• Ensure specific endian handlers are prioritised over normal date handlers
• Recognize UTC as timezone and accept HH::MM timezone offset (Jason Dusek)

0.6.1 / 2011-07-21

• Ensure Handler definitions are executed in the correct order

0.6.0 / 2011-07-19

• Attempting to parse strings with days past the last day of a month will now return nil. ex: Chronic.parse("30th February") #=> nil
• All deprecated methods are marked for removal in Chronic 0.7.0
• Deprecated Chronic.numericize_numbers instead use Chronic::Numerizer.numerize
• Deprecated Chronic::InvalidArgumentException and instead use ArgumentError
• Deprecated Time.construct and use Chronic.construct in place of this
• Deprecated Time#to_minidate, instead use Chronic::MiniDate.from_time(time)
• Add support for handling generic timestamp for Ruby 1.9+

0.5.0 / 2011-07-01

• Replace commas with spaces instead of removing the char (Thomas Walpole)
• Added tests for RepeaterSeason
• Re-factored tests. Now rather than having a test_parsing method for testing all handlers, break them down independent of handler method. For example with handler handle_sm_sd_sy the subsequent test would be test_handle_sm_sd_sy
• Added support for parsing ordinal-dates/month-names/year, ie: 2nd of May 1995
• Added support for parsing ordinal-dates and month names, ie: 22nd of February at 6:30pm
• Fix Time.construct leap year checking. Instead use Date.leap?(year)

0.4.4 / 2011-06-12

• Fix RepeaterYear for fetching past year offsets when the current day is later than the last day of the same month in a past year (leap years) ie on 29th/feb (leap year) last year should (and now does) return 28th/feb instead of 1st/march
• Opt in for gem testing http://test.rubygems.org/

0.4.3 / 2011-06-08

• Fix issue with parsing 1:xxPM -- Ensure 1 is treated as ambiguous, not just >1

0.4.2 / 2011-06-07

• Fix MonthRepeater for fetching past month offsets when current day is later than the last day of a past month (ie on 29th of March when parsing last month Chronic would return March instead of February. Now Chronic returns the last day of the past month)

0.4.1 / 2011-06-05

• Fix MiniDate ranges for parsing seasons (Thomas Walpole)

0.4.0 / 2011-06-04

• Ensure context is being passed through grabbers. Now "Sunday at 2:18pm" with :context => :past will return the correct date
• Support parsing ordinal strings (eg first, twenty third => 1st, 23rd)
• Seasons now ignore DST and return 00 as an hour
• Support parsing 2 digit years and added ambiguous_year_future_bias option
• Support parsing 'thurs' for Thursday
• Fix pre_normalize() to remove periods before numerizing
• Fix RepeaterDays to not add an extra hour in future tense. This meant when parsing 'yesterday' after 11PM, Chronic would return today
• Discard any prefixed 0 for time strings when using post noon portion
• Gemspec updates for RubyGems deprecations
• Ensure 0:10 is treated like 00:10
• Ensure we load classes after setting Chronic class instance variables so we can debug initialization and do assignments at compile time
• Added a Tag.scan_for method for DRYing up some scanning code
• Move some classes into their own files for maintainability
• Numerizer.andition should be a private class method, make it so
• Namespaced Numerizer, Season and MiniDate (Sascha Teske)
• Support for Ruby 1.9 (Dave Lee, Aaron Hurley)
• Fix :context => :past where parsed date is in current month (Marc Hedlund)
• Fix undefined variable in RepeaterHour (Ryan Garver)
• Added support for parsing 'Fourty' as another mis-spelling (Lee Reilly)
• Added ordinal format support: ie 'February 14th, 2004' (Jeff Felchner)
• Fix dates when working with daylight saving times (Mike Mangino)

0.3.0 / 2010-10-22

• Fix numerizer number combination bug (27 Oct 2006 7:30pm works now)
• Allow numeric timezone offset (e.g -0500)
• Disregard commas (so as to not return nil)
• Fix parse of (am|pm|oclock) separation to handle "Ham sandwich" properly
• Handle 'on' e.g. 5pm on Monday
• Support seasons
• Support weekend/weekday
• Add endianness option
• Update version number in the module
• Fix/improve logic checks in Ordinal, and Scalar
• Parse 'a' or 'p' as 'am' and 'pm' google-calendar style
• Dates < 1 are not valid
• Fix bugs related to timezone offset
• Use RakeGem for build management
• Reformat README and HISTORY to use Markdown
• Global whitespace removal

0.2.3

• Fix 12am/12pm

0.2.2

• Add missing files (damn you manifest)

0.2.1

• Fix time overflow issue
• Implement "next" for minute repeater
• Generalize time dealiasing to dealias regardless of day portion and time position
• Add additional token match for cases like "friday evening at 7" and "tomorrow evening at 7"
• Add support for Time#to_s output format: "Mon Apr 02 17:00:00 PDT 2007"

0.2.0 2007-03-20

• Implement numerizer, allowing the use of number words (e.g. five weeks ago)

0.1.6 2006-01-15

• Add 'weekend' support

0.1.5 2006-12-20

• Fix 'aug 20' returning next year if current month is august
• Modify behavior of 'from now'
• Add support for seconds on times, and thus db timestamp format: "2006-12-20 18:04:23"
• Make Hoe compliant

0.1.4

• Remove verbose error checking code. oops. :-/

0.1.3

• improved regexes for word variations
• Fix a bug that caused "today at 3am" to return nil if current time is after 3am

0.1.2

• Remove Date dependency (now works on windows properly without fiddling)

0.1.1

• Run to_s on incoming object
• Fix loop loading of repeaters files (out of order on some machines)
• Fix find_within to use this instead of next (was breaking "today at 6pm")

0.1.0

• Initial release