Updated: dateutils 0.4.12 - Date manipulation utilities
Cygwin dateutils Maintainer
Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
Mon Sep 21 06:16:49 GMT 2026
Dateutils are a bunch of tools that revolve around fiddling with
dates and times on the command line with a strong focus on use cases
that arise when dealing with large amounts of financial data.
For more information see the project home pages:
http://www.fresse.org/dateutils
https://github.com/hroptatyr/dateutils
The following package has been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:
- dateutils 0.4.12
For changes since the last Cygwin release see below or after
installation open /usr/share/doc/dateutils/changelog.html:
https://www.fresse.org/dateutils/changelog.html
For full details, see:
https://github.com/hroptatyr/dateutils/compare/v0.4.11...v0.4.12
2026-09-18 0.4.12
This is a bugfix release.
Features:
- zones can now be specified by their offset
- named input formats can be dates only
- allow to overspecify ywd dates
Bugfixes:
- differences absolutely less than 24 hours but on different days are
calculated correctly
- differences on epoch based timestamps are implemented
- check if input fulfils %V/%W specs
- always ignore time zone fixups when using the ânowâ special
- when reading epochs do not treat 0 specially
- leap second transitions are detected properly
- datetest âisvalid also checks for fix-ups
See info page examples and/or README.
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