[ANNOUNCEMENT] Date-1.4.4 (beta) Released.

The new PEAR package Date-1.4.4 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- - Establish the DATE_CALC_FORMAT constant and use it as the default value for each of the Date_Calc class' method's $format parameter. - Add beginOfMonthBySpan() and endOfMonthBySpan() methods to Date_Calc. - Use integers for the parameters in Date_Calc instead of strings. - Tweak Date_Calc::NWeekdayOfMonth() so it can calculate the 'last' given weekday of a month. - #1640. Make sure all longname's are also keys in $GLOBALS['_DATE_TIMEZONE_DATA']. Makes Date_TimeZone work under more operating systems. - #5420, missing CEST - #3846, getYear, getMonth returns integer - #2652, add %h and %i support (rob at wildlime dot com - #5494, force dot as decimal separator - #3022, allow to specify the weekday abbrevation length used in ::format() - #4878, %s padding fix when < 10 ( aashley at optimiser dot com) - #3059, use GLOBALS in date_span Package Info ------------- Generic classes for representation and manipulation of dates, times and time zones without the need of timestamps, which is a huge limitation for php programs. Includes time zone data, time zone conversions and many date/time conversions. It does not rely on 32-bit system date stamps, so you can display calendars and compare dates that date pre 1970 and post 2038. This package also provides a class to convert date strings between Gregorian and Human calendar formats. Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Date Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Date/download/1.4.4 Download: http://pear.php.net/get/Date-1.4.4.tgz Authors ------------- Baba Buehler <baba@babaz.com> (lead) Monte Ohrt <monte@ohrt.com> (lead) Pierre-Alain Joye (lead) Alan Knowles <alan@akbkhome.com> (developer)