🚀 Changelog

0.5.1 (2024-04-02)

  • Fix LocalSystemDateTime.now() not setting the correct offset (#104)

0.5.0 (2024-03-21)

Breaking changes

  • Fix handling of -0000 offset in RFC2822 format, which was not according to the standard. NaiveDateTime can now no longer be created from this format.

  • DateDelta canonical format now uses P prefix.

Improved

  • Add explicit ISO8601 formatting/parsing methods to datetimes, date, time, and deltas.

  • Add missing Date.from_canonical_format method.

  • Separate docs for deltas and datetimes.

  • NaiveDateTime.assume_offset now also accepts integers as hour offsets.

0.4.0 (2024-03-13)

A big release with the main feature being the addition of date/time deltas. I’ve also tried to bundle as many small breaking changes as possible into this release, to avoid having to do them in the future.

Breaking changes

  • LocalDateTime renamed to LocalSystemDateTime.

    Rationale: The LocalDateTime name is used in other libraries for naive datetimes, and the new name is more explicit.

  • LocalSystemDateTime no longer adjusts automatically to changes in the system timezone. Now, LocalSystemDateTime reflects the system timezone at the moment of instantiation. It can be updated explicitly.

    Rationale: The old behavior was dependent on too many assumptions, and behaved unintuitively in some cases. It also made the class dependent on shared mutable state, which made it hard to reason about.

  • The disambiguate= argument now also determines how non-existent times are handled.

    Rationale: This makes it possible to handle both ambiguous and non-existent times gracefully and in a consistent way. This behavior is also more in line with the RFC5545 standard, and Temporal.

  • from_naive() removed in favor of methods on NaiveDateTime. For example, UTCDateTime.from_naive(n) becomes n.assume_utc().

    Rationale: It’s shorter, and more explicit about assumptions.

  • Renamed ZonedDateTime.disambiguated() to .is_ambiguous().

    Rationale: The new name distinguishes it from the disambiguate= argument, which also affects non-existent times.

  • Replaced .py property with .py_datetime() method.

    Rationale: Although it currently works fine as a property, this may be changed in the future if the library no longer contains a datetime internally.

  • Removed properties that simply delegated to the underlying datetime object: tzinfo, weekday, and fold. date and time now return whenever.Date and whenever.Time objects.

    Rationale: Removing these properties makes it possible to create improved versions. If needed, these properties can be accessed from the underlying datetime object with .py_datetime().

  • Renamed .canonical_str() to .canonical_format().

    Rationale: A more descriptive name.

  • Renamed DoesntExistInZone to SkippedTime, Ambiguous to AmbiguousTime.

    Rationale: The new names are shorter and more consistent.

  • Renamed min and max to MIN and MAX.

    Rationale: Consistency with other uppercase class constants

Improved

  • Added a disambiguation="compatible" option that matches the behavior of other languages and the RFC5545 standard.

  • Shortened the repr() of all types, use space separator instead of T.

  • Added sep="T" or " " option to canonical_format()

  • OffsetDateTime constructor and methods creating offset datetimes now accept integers as hour offsets.

  • Added Date and Time classes for working with dates and times separately.

0.3.4 (2024-02-07)

  • 🏷️ Improved exception messages for ambiguous or non-existent times (#26)

0.3.3 (2024-02-04)

  • 💾 Add CPython-maintained tzdata package as Windows dependency (#32)

0.3.2 (2024-02-03)

  • 🔓 Relax overly strict Python version constraint in package metadata (#33)

0.3.1 (2024-02-01)

  • 📦 Fix packaging metadata issue involving README and CHANGELOG being installed in the wrong place (#23)

0.3.0 (2024-01-23)

Breaking changes

  • 🥒 Change pickle format so that backwards-compatible unpickling is possible in the future.

Added

  • 🔨 Added strptime() to UTCDateTime, OffsetDateTime and NaiveDateTime.

  • 📋 Added rfc2822()/from_rfc2822() to UTCDateTime, OffsetDateTime and NaiveDateTime.

  • ⚙️ Added rfc3339()/from_rfc3339() to UTCDateTime and OffsetDateTime

0.2.1 (2024-01-20)

  • added days() timedelta alias

  • Improvements to README, other docs

0.2.0 (2024-01-10)

Breaking changes

  • 📐Disambiguation of local datetimes is now consistent with zoned datetimes, and is also run on replace().

  • 👌Renamed:

    • from_str → from_canonical_str

    • to_utc/offset/zoned/local → as_utc/offset/zoned/local.

    • ZonedDateTime.zone → ZonedDateTime.tz

Added

  • ⚖️ Support comparison between all aware datetimes

  • 🧮Support subtraction between all aware datetimes

  • 🍩 Convenience methods for converting between aware/naive

  • 💪 More robust handling of zoned/local edge cases

Docs

  • Cleaned up API reference

  • Added high-level overview

0.1.0 (2023-12-20)

  • 🚀 Implement OffsetDateTime, ZonedDateTime and LocalDateTime

0.0.4 (2023-11-30)

  • 🐍 Revert to pure Python implementation, as Rust extension disadvantages outweigh its advantages

  • ☀️ Implement NaiveDateTime

0.0.3 (2023-11-16)

  • 🌐 Implement basic UTCDateTime

0.0.2 (2023-11-10)

  • ⚙️ Empty release with Rust extension module

0.0.1

  • 📦 Dummy release