v0.6-5  (2025-04-01)

  o tz data have been updated

  o a vector 'Easter' is now exported, which provides
    Easter sundays (in the Gregorian calendar) between
    1970--2029

v0.6-4  (2024-04-01)

  o tz data have been updated

v0.6-3  (2023-11-02)

  o fix functions 'hour', 'minute' and 'second', which
    had been broken

v0.6-2  (2023-09-20)

  o tiny updates in vignette

  o there is an additional public Git repository at
    https://git.sr.ht/~enricoschumann/datetimeutils

v0.6-1  (2023-04-03)

  o no user-visible changes (fixed some timezone issues
    in tests)

v0.6-0  (2023-04-01)

  o fixed: functions 'hour' 'minute', and 'second', which
    had been added in v0.5-0, are now exported

  o patterns for days in 'guess_datetime' are relaxed:
    in some cases a single digit will be recognised

  o 'previous_businessday', 'next_businessday' and
    'is_businessday' now take into account a vector of
    'holidays' when computing dates

  o 'convert_date' gains a new type "excel1904" for Excel
    files that use origin 1904-01-01. A new function
    'date1904' determines if an xlsx-file uses origin 1904.

  o tz data have been updated

v0.5-0  (2021-04-01)

  o fixed: argument 'tz' had been ignored by 'guess_datetime'

  o 'guess_datetime' gets an argument 'try.patterns' that
    lets the user specify additionals patterns

  o new functions 'hour' 'minute', and 'second', which
    work just as 'year' etc.

  o convert_date: support for PSPP/SPSS dates and times;
    based on a patch by J\"org Beyer

  o 'tznames' has been updated and no longer contains
    duplicates

v0.4-0  (2020-03-25)

  o guess_datetime: the function now supports the date
    pattern "YYYYMMDD"; it also gains arguments
    'date.only', 'within' and 'tz'

  o the package now contains vectors 'month.name.de'
    and 'month.abb.de.din1355.1', which provide German
    month names and their abbreviations

  o the package now contains a data.frame 'tznames',
    which provides a mapping between Olson and Windows
    timezone names

v0.3-0  (2019-03-21)

  o new function 'end_of_quarter'

  o nth_day: argument 'period' may now also be a month
    name. Arguments 'timestamps', 'start' and 'end' may
    be simple years, such as "2000". For start/end,
    they will be interpreted as 1 Jan/31 Dec of that
    year.

v0.2-12  (2018-02-28)

  o nth_day: argument 'n' may be of length greater than 1

v0.2-11  (2018-02-05)

  o timegrid: argument 'excludeWeekends' was renamed
    to 'exclude.weekends' (for consistency with
    other functions, such as PMwR::plot_trading_hours)

  o nth_day: argument 'period' may now also be
    "week" or "year"; argument 'n' may now also be
    numeric

v0.2-10  (2018-01-26)

  o nth_day: argument 'period' may be numeric

v0.2-9  (2018-01-05)

  o new functions 'year', 'month' and 'nth_day'

v0.2-8  (2017-10-11)

  o minor change in example for 'timegrid' to avoid
    error on Solaris

v0.2-7  (2017-08-25)

  o 'last_weekday' now supports arguments 'before' and
    'inclusive'

v0.2-6  (2017-08-17)

  o new function 'end_of_previous_year'

  o fixed: the 'shift' argument in 'end_of_year' had
    been applied to months instead of years

v0.2-5  (2017-08-07)

  o add vignette with examples

v0.2-4  (2017-07-09)

  o update documentation + internal changes

v0.2-3  (2017-07-09)

  o new function 'guess_datetime'

v0.2-2  (2017-06-26)

  o fixed: 'timegrid' had failed when timezone was
    missing

v0.2-1  (2017-06-26)

  o fixed: 'timegrid' had ignored the 'excludeWeekends'
    argument

v0.2-0  (2017-05-08)

  o *backward* *incompatible* *changes*.  for better
    consistency, several functions have been renamed:

      convertDate   => convert_date
      convertTZ     => convert_tz
      dayOfMonth    => "day_of_month<-"
      dayOfMonth    => day_of_month
      endOfMonth    => end_of_month
      endOfPreviousMonth => end_of_previous_month
      endOfYear     => end_of_year
      firstOfMonth  => first_of_month
      firstOfYear   => first_of_year
      isBusinessDay => is_businessday
      isLeapyear    => is_leapyear
      isWeekend     => is_weekend
      lastWeekday   => last_weekday
      nextBDay      => next_bday
      nextBusinessDay => next_businessday
      nthWeekday    => nth_weekday
      prevBDay      => prev_bday
      previousBusinessDay => previous_businessday

v0.1-5  (2016-10-04)

  o add short-hands 'prevBDay' and 'nextBDay' for
    'previousBusinessDay' and 'nextBusinessDay'

v0.1-4  (2016-07-07)

  o fixed: 'nthWeekday' had failed in some cases

  o new function 'isBusinessDay'

v0.1-3  (2016-05-11)

  o new function 'convertTZ'

v0.1-2  (2016-04-29)

  o new function 'firstOfYear'

v0.1-0  (2015-12-09)

  o there is now a public Git repository at
    https://github.com/enricoschumann/datetimeutils