Changes in version 0.3.13 (2026-04-14) o Continuous integration has received minor updates o The vignette now use the Rcpp::asis() driver, and references have been refreshed o Stateful 'where are we running' detection is now more robust, and has been moved from running on each startup to a cached 'as needed' case Changes in version 0.3.12 (2025-07-14) o Continuous integration now uses r-ci action with embedded bootstrap o The versioned depends on Rcpp now requires 1.0.8 or newer to support use of the updated header file structure o The corner-case of an empty (numeric or integer) vector argument is now addressed, new tests have been added (#135) Changes in version 0.3.11 (2024-12-19) o Skip one test file under another operating system Changes in version 0.3.10 (2024-12-02) o A new documentation site was added. o Continuous Integration now uses run.sh from r-ci with bspm o Logical input vectors are now recognised as an error (#121) o Additional dot-separated format ' o Other small updates were made throughout the package o No longer set a C++ compilation standard as the default choices by R are sufficient for the package o Switch Rcpp include file to Rcpp/Lightest o We recommend ~/.R/Makevars compiler flag options -Wno-ignored-attributes -Wno-nonnull -Wno-parentheses o The tinytest runner was simplified o NA values from conversion now trigger a warning Changes in version 0.3.9 (2020-08-27) o Skip one test file that is impossible to run across different CRAN setups, and life is definitely too short for these games. o Change remaining http:// to https:// because, well, you know. Changes in version 0.3.8 (2020-07-24) o A small utility function was added to detect the Linux distribution used in order to fine-tune tests once more. o Travis now uses Ubuntu 'bionic' and R 4.0.*. Changes in version 0.3.7 (2020-01-20) o Test and possibly condition away one more test file. o Small enhancement for compilation by setting no-rtti define via Rcpp. o New option calcUnique for speed-up by parseing only unique timestamps (Stephen Froehlich in #110 fixing #109). Changes in version 0.3.6 (2019-08-29) o Added, and then removed, required file for JOSS; added 'unworthy' badge as we earned a desk reject (cf #1605 there). o Renamed internal helper function format() to fmt() to avoid clashes with base::format() (Dirk in #104). o Use S3 dispatch and generics for key functions (Dirk in #106). o Continued to tweak tests as we find some of the rhub platform to behave strangely (Dirk via commits, #107, and #108). o Added %e format for single-digit day parsing by Boost (Dirk addressing at least #24, #70 and #99). o Expansed and updated vignette with benchmark comparisons. o Updated unit tests using tinytest which remains a pleasure to use; versioned Suggests: is now '>= 1.0.0'. Changes in version 0.3.5 (2019-07-28) o Fix use of Rcpp::Function-accessed Sys.setenv(), name all arguments in call to C++ (Christoph Sax in #95). o Relax constraint on Windows testing in several test files (Christoph Sax in #97). o Fix an issue related to TZ environment variable setting (Dirk in #101). o Change useR=TRUE behaviour by directly calling R via Rcpp (Dirk in #103 fixing #96). o Several updates to unit testing files aiming for more robust behaviour across platforms. o Updated documentation in manual pages, README and vignette. Changes in version 0.3.4 (2019-06-18) o Documentation was updated about a 'Europe/London' conversion issue (#84, inter alia). o The package is now compiled under the C++11 standard. o The package now uses tinytest for unit tests. o The iso8601() function now places a ‘T’ between date and time; an option switches to prior format using a space. o The vignette is now pre-made and included as-is in a Sweave document reducing the number of suggested packages. Changes in version 0.3.3 (2018-11-14) o Vignette build quirkyness on Windows resolved so vignette reinstated. o Documentation updated showing correct use of anydate (and not anytime) on input like ‘2016010’ following the 0.3.0 release heuristic change. o Set #define for Boost to make compilation more quiet. Changes in version 0.3.2 (2018-11-06) o Added a new vignette introducing the anytime package. Seemingly it cannot be compiled on Windows so included prebuilt. o Some more tests for anydate were added along with so code coverage tags. o The C++ code was robustified in two places to not trigger rchk warnings (#79). o Three unit test files which fail on Solaris are now skipping this os as we cannot reproduce or test on this OS (#80). Changes in version 0.3.1 (2018-07-03) o Numeric input is now preserved rather than silently cast to the return object type (#69 fixing #68). o New assertion function assertDate() and assertTime(). o Unit tests were expanded for the new functions, for conversion from integer as well as for yyyymmdd(). Changes in version 0.3.0 (2017-06-05) o Numeric input is now always an offset to epoch, with anytime() using seconds, and anydate() using dates. (#65 fixing #63). o Old behaviour can be re-enabled with an option also supporting a global setting getOption("anytimeOldHeuristic") o RStudio versions 1.1.129 or later can run all functions without fear of crashing due to a change in their use of Boost. o Replaced init.c with registration code inside of RcppExports.cpp thanks to Rcpp 0.12.11. Changes in version 0.2.2 (2017-03-21) o Address corner case of integer-typed (large) values corresponding to POSIXct time (PR #57 closing ##56) o Add special case for ‘Europe/London’ and 31 Oct 1971 BST change to avoid a one-hour offset error (#58 fixing #36 and #51) o Address another corner case of numeric values corresponding to Date types which are now returned as Date o Added file init.c with calls to R_registerRoutines() and R_useDynamicSymbols(); already used .registration=TRUE in useDynLib in NAMESPACE Changes in version 0.2.1 (2017-02-09) o The new DatetimeVector class from Rcpp is now used, and proper versioned Depends: have been added (PR #43) o The anydate and utcdate functions convert again from factor and ordered (PR #46 closing #44) o A format similar to RFC 28122 but with additonal timezone text can now be parsed (PR #48 closing #47) o Conversion from POSIXt to Date now also respect the timezone (PR #50 closing #49) o The internal .onLoad functions was updated o The Travis setup uses https to fetch the run script Changes in version 0.2.0 (2016-12-24) o Added (exported) helper functions iso8601(), rfc2822() and rfc3339() to format date(time) objects according to standards o Conversion to dates is now more robust thanks to improved internal processing (PR #39 closing #36) o The ISO 8601 format is now recognised, however the timezone information is not parsed by Boost Date_Time (which is a known upstream limitation) (PR #38 closing #37) o The 'allFormats.R' test script was significantly strengthened (#40) o Test scripts like 'simpleTests.R' have as also been strengthened (#41); on Windows and in one file two tests need to be skipped. o A new 'bulkTest.R' test script was added testing parsing against what R returns Changes in version 0.1.2 (2016-12-13) o The (internal) string processing and splitting now uses Boost algorithm functions which avoids a (bizarre) bug on Windows. (#33) o Test coverage was increased. Changes in version 0.1.1 (2016-11-27) o Both anydate() and utcdate() no longer attempt to convert an input value that is already of type Date. o The string splitter (needed for the 'all-digits' formats extending Boost Date_time) is now more defensive about the input argument and more robust. Thanks to Bob Jansen for the heads-up (PR #30 closing issue #29). o Code coverage reporting has been added (PR #31). Changes in version 0.1.0 (2016-11-08) o New functions utctime() and utcdate() were added to parse input as coordinated universal time; the functionality is also available in anytime() and anydate() via a new argument asUTC (PR #22) o New (date)time format for RFC822-alike dates, and expanded existing datetime formats to all support fractional seconds (PR #21) o Extended functionality to support not only ‘YYYYMMDD’ (without a separator, and not covered by Boost) but also with ‘HHMM’, ‘HHMMSS’ and ‘HHMMSS.ffffff’ (PR #30 fixing issue #29) o Extended functionality to support ‘HHMMSS[.ffffff]’ following other date formats. o Documentation and tests have been expanded; typos corrected o New (unexported) helper functions setTZ, testOutput, setDebug o The testFormat (and testOutput) functions cannot be called under RStudio (PR #27 fixing issue #25). o More robust support for non-finite values such as NA, NaN or Inf (Fixing issue #16) Changes in version 0.0.4 (2016-10-20) o Before converting via lexical_cast, assign to atomic type via template logic to avoid an UBSAN issue (PR #15 closing issue #14) o More robust initialization and timezone information gathering. o More robust processing of non-finite input also coping with non-finite values such as NA, NaN and Inf which all return NA o Allow numeric POSIXt representation on input, also creating proper POSIXct (or, if requested, Date) Changes in version 0.0.3 (2016-10-14) o Added (non-exported) helper function testFormat() o Do not access tm_isdst on Windows for dates before the epoch (pull request #13 fixing issue #12); added test as well Changes in version 0.0.2 (2016-09-15) o Refactored to use a simple class wrapped around two vector with (string) formats and locales; this allow for adding formats; also adds accessor for formats (#4, closes #1 and #3). o New function addFormats() and getFormats(). o Relaxed one tests which showed problems on some platforms. o Added as.POSIXlt() step to anydate() ensuring all POSIXlt components are set (#6 fixing #5). Changes in version 0.0.1 (2016-09-13) o Initial release with anytime() and anydate