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DateTime-Lite-v0.6.5

Changes for version v0.6.5 - 2026-04-24

  • Bug Fixes
    • Added %O in the supported patterns tokens for strftime(). It returns now the IANA timezone name via $dt->time_zone->name (such as Asia/Tokyo or Europe/London). This makes %O usable symmetrically for both parsing and formatting in conjunction with DateTime::Format::Lite.
    • Added %E (abbreviated weekday name, alias for %a) and %h (abbreviated month name, alias for %b) that were missing from the strftime supported patterns tokens.
    • Corrected %{n}N patterns (such as %3N for milliseconds and %6N for microseconds) that were returning 9 digits regardless of the specified precision. The N entry in the strftime dispatch table was ignoring its second argument (the digit count captured by the %(\d+)N regex branch).
  • New Feature
    • Added %:z to strftime(), returning the UTC offset with a colon separator (such as +01:00 or -05:00). This is a GNU extension also supported by Ruby and Python, useful for producing W3C/RFC 3339 formatted timestamps. The strftime regex has been extended to handle this multi-character specifier.
  • Improvement
    • Improved the POD for DateTime::Lite with a detailed section on supported strftime tokens.

Documentation

CONTRIBUTING.md
README.md
benchmark.pl
Compare DateTime and DateTime::Lite performance
build_tz_database.pl
Build the DateTime::Lite::TimeZone SQLite database
leap_seconds_header.pl
Generate leap_seconds.h for DateTime::Lite XS

Modules

DateTime::Lite
Lightweight, low-dependency drop-in replacement for DateTime
DateTime::Lite::Duration
Duration objects for use with DateTime::Lite
DateTime::Lite::Exception
Exception object for DateTime::Lite
DateTime::Lite::Infinite
Infinite past and future DateTime::Lite objects
DateTime::Lite::PP
Pure-Perl fallback for the DateTime::Lite XS layer
DateTime::Lite::TimeZone
Lightweight timezone support for DateTime::Lite

Provides

DateTime::Lite::Infinite::Future
in lib/DateTime/Lite/Infinite.pm
DateTime::Lite::Infinite::Past
in lib/DateTime/Lite/Infinite.pm
DateTime::Lite::_FakeLocale
in lib/DateTime/Lite/Infinite.pm
DateTime::Lite::_Thawed
in lib/DateTime/Lite.pm

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