Change Log

3.0.0 - 2023-12-16

Changed

• Relaxed dependency constraints. #760
• The testing helpers are now optional and must be opted-in via the test extra. #778

Fixed

• Removed remaining mentions of periods instead of intervals. #757
• Fixed the behavior of the week_of_month property for edge cases in January and December. #774
• Fixed the handling of the fold attribute when deep-copying a DateTime instance. #776
• Fixed errors where hours and days were not handled properly when adding durations. #775
• Fixed errors where hours and days were not handled properly when adding durations. #775

3.0.0b1 - 2023-10-01

Added

• Made instance() support all native types (date, time, datetime). #732

Changed

• Dropped support for Python 3.7. #734
• Rewrote extensions in Rust. #721
• Made day of week convention more consistent across the codebase. #731

Fixed

• Fixed datetime string representation to match the native library. #733
• Fixed issues on some system when retrieving the local timezone. #733
• Fixed DST handling in start_of()/end_of() methods. #713

3.0.0a1 - 2022-11-23

Added

• Added new testing helpers to time travel. #626

Changed

• Dropped support for Python 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6. #569
• The Timezone class now relies on the native zoneinfo.ZoneInfo class. #569
• Renamed the Period class to Interval. #676
• Renamed the period helper to interval. #676
• Removed existing testing helpers: test() and set_test_now(). #626

Locales

• Added the sk locale. #575
• Added the ja locale. #610
• Added the he locale. #585
• Added the sv locale. #562

2.1.1 - 2020-07-13

Fixed

• Fixed errors where invalid timezones were matched in from_format() (#374).
• Fixed errors when subtracting negative timedeltas (#419).
• Fixed errors in total units computation for durations with years and months (#482).
• Fixed an error where the fold attribute was overridden when using replace() (#414).
• Fixed an error where now() was not returning the correct result on DST transitions (#483).
• Fixed inconsistent typing annotation for the parse() function (#452).

Locales

• Added the pl locale (#459).

2.1.0 - 2020-03-07

Added

• Added better typing and PEP-561 compliance (#320).
• Added the is_anniversary() method as an alias of is_birthday() (#298).

Changed

• Dropped support for Python 3.4.
• is_utc() will now return True for any datetime with an offset of 0, similar to the behavior in the 1.* versions (#295)
• Duration.in_words() will now return 0 milliseconds for empty durations.

Fixed

• Fixed various issues with timezone transitions for some edge cases (#321, (#350)).
• Fixed out of bound detection for nth_of("month") (#357).
• Fixed an error where extra text was accepted in from_format() (#372).
• Fixed a recursion error when adding time to a DateTime with a fixed timezone (#431).
• Fixed errors where Period instances were not properly compared to other classes, especially timedelta instances (#427).
• Fixed deprecation warnings due to internal regexps (#427).
• Fixed an error where the test() helper would not unset the test instance when an exception was raised (#445).
• Fixed an error where the week_of_month attribute was not returning the correct value (#446).
• Fixed an error in the way the Z ISO-8601 UTC designator was not parsed as UTC (#448).

Locales

• Added the nl locale.
• Added the it locale.
• Added the id locale.
• Added the nb locale.
• Added the nn locale.

2.0.5 - 2019-07-03

Fixed

• Fixed ISO week dates not being parsed properly in from_format().
• Fixed loading of some timezones with empty posix spec.
• Fixed deprecation warnings.

Locales

• Added RU locale.

2.0.4 - 2018-10-30

Fixed

• Fixed from_format() not recognizing input strings when the specified pattern had escaped elements.
• Fixed missing x token for string formatting.
• Fixed reading timezone files.
• Added support for parsing padded 2-digit days of the month with from_format()
• Fixed from_format() trying to parse escaped tokens.
• Fixed the z token timezone parsing in from_format() to allow underscores.
• Fixed C extensions build errors.
• Fixed age calculation for future dates.

2.0.3 - 2018-07-30

Fixed

• Fixed handling of pytz timezones.
• Fixed some formatter's tokens handling.
• Fixed errors on some systems when retrieving timezone from localtime files.
• Fixed diff methods.
• Fixed closest()/farthest() methods.

2.0.2 - 2018-05-29

Fixed

• Fixed the weeks property for negative Period instances.
• Fixed start_of() methods not setting microseconds to 0.
• Fixed errors on some systems when retrieving timezone from clock files.
• Fixed parsing of partial time.
• Fixed parsing not raising an error for week 53 for ordinary years.
• Fixed string formatting not supporting strftime format.

2.0.1 - 2018-05-10

Fixed

• Fixed behavior of the YY token in from_format().
• Fixed errors on some systems when retrieving timezone from clock files.

2.0.0 - 2018-05-08

Added

• Added years and months support to durations.
• Added the test_local_timezone() and set_local_timezone() helpers to ease testing.
• Added support of ISO 8601 duration parsing.
• Added support of ISO 8601 interval parsing.
• Added a local() helper.
• Added a naive() helper and a naive() method.
• Added support for POSIX specification to extend timezones DST transitions.

Changed

• Pendulum class has been renamed to DateTime.
• Interval class has been renamed to Duration.
• Changed and improved the timezone system.
• Removed the create() helper.
• Removed the utcnow() helper.
• strict keyword argument for parse has been renamed to exact.
• at() now supports setting partial time.
• local, utc and is_dst are now methods rather than properties (is_local(), is_utc(), is_dst()).
• Changed the repr of most common objects.
• Made the strict keyword argument for parse false by default, which means it will not fallback on the dateutil parser.
• Improved performances of the precise_diff() helper.
• The alternative formatter is now the default one.
• set_to_string_format()/reset_to_string_format() methods have been removed.
• from_format() now uses the alternative formatter tokens.
• Removed xrange() method of the Period class and made range() a generator.
• New locale system which uses CLDR data for most of the translations.
• diff_for_humans() now returns a few seconds where appropriate.
• Removed Period.intersect().