Hi Ashley,

Thanks for making an in depth changelog! It's something that I frequently miss when upgrading other packages.

Would you be willing to also give a backwards compatible migration guide for the new version? With a package this deep down in the library stack I think it's very important for people to allow older versions for quite some time.

Cheers,

Adam

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Ashley Yakeley <ashley@semantic.org> wrote:

time-1.5 is now available from Hackage.
<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/time>

The source for time has now moved to GitHub: <https://github.com/haskell/time>. Send bug reports to the associated issue tracker.

* Fixed a bug where tzset was not getting called on Windows.

The other changes relate to Data.Time.Format:

* time no longer depends on old-locale. The TimeLocale from old-locale has been replaced by a new one defined in Data.Time.Format.
* The "intervals" field from TimeLocale has been removed, as it's not used.
* The way time-zone abbreviations are parsed has changed. The parsing functions parse single-letter military abbreviations, and also time-zones found in the new "knownTimeZones" field of TimeLocale.

Note that (knownTimeZones defaultTimeLocale) contains only the ten zone abbreviations mentioned in RFC822 sec. 5. This is the only standardised list of time-zone abbreviations I know of. Since the abbreviations are a many-to-many mapping, this should encourage people to think carefully about what abbreviations they expect.

* New parsing functions parseTimeM, parseTimeOrError, readSTime, readPTime replace now-deprecated parseTime, readTime, readsTime. The new functions have a flag to control parsing of leading and trailing whitespace.

-- Ashley Yakeley

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