+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #838476 +++

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #838120 +++

Fedora delivers version 0.70 which is too old.

For example it does not implement 2012-07 leap second which has been added by upstream in version 0.71 on 2012-01-05. It can result in faulty time arithmetics now.

It's shame Fedora does not deliver current version of such impotant package demanding regular updates. Upstream changelog:

0.76   2012-07-01

- The DateTime->subtract method ignored the end_of_month parameter. Patch by
  Chris Reinhardt. RT #77844.


0.75   2012-06-11

- The epoch for years 1-999 was broken because Time::Local is "clever". A pox
  on all clever APIs, I say! Reported by Christian Hansen. RT #77719.

- Shut up compilation warning from 5.17.x. Reported by Tom Wyant. RT #77490.


0.74   2012-03-22

- Small packaging fix for metacpan's benefit. No need to upgrade.


0.73   2012-03-17

- Change tests to work with Zefram's entirely rebuilt DateTime::TimeZone
  distribution, which will replace the current implementation. Patch by
  Zefram. RT #75757.


0.72   2012-01-05

- Remove Test::DependentModules from the dep list. This is used by some
  author-only tests. Reported by Zefram.


0.71   2012-01-05

- There will be a new leap second on June 30, 2012.

--- Additional comment from iarnell on 2012-07-06 17:59:53 GMT ---

[...]

And Petr, how about cloning this for RHEL? It's an even bigger shame that Red Hat delivers an even more outdated version of this package (and more importantly, DateTime::TimeZone) demanding regular updates.
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RHEL-6 is affected (perl-DateTime-1:0.5300-1.el6.x86_64). Changelog continuation:

0.70   2011-05-09

- Really fix %N, finally. This was breaking the DateTime::Event::Recurrence
  test suite. Patch by Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker.


0.69   2011-05-03

- When a DateTime object had nanoseconds == 0, the %N strftime specifier
  always returned "0" regardless of the precision requested. Reported by John
  Siracusa. RT #67928.


0.68   2011-04-25

- The tests for %N in the last release relied on the vagaries of floating
  point math on a 64-bit system. Now the from_epoch() method just uses string
  operations to separate the epoch into an integer value and a mantissa. This
  avoids floating point insanity. Reported by zefram. RT #67736.


0.67   2011-04-24

- The %N strftime specifier simply truncated nanoseconds, rather than rounding
  them. Reported by Michael R. Davis. RT #66744.

- The %U strftime specifier was off by one in years where January 1st was a
  Sunday. Patch by Christian Hansen. RT #67631.

- The %W strftime specifier was off by one in years where January 1st was a
  Sunday or Monday. Patch by Christian Hansen. RT #67631.

- Some small optimizations from Christian Hansen. The biggest impact is for
  calculating week_of_month, week_number, and week_year.

- This distro now requires Perl 5.8.1+ (it implicitly did this anyway now that
  Params::Validate is 5.8.1+).


0.66   2010-11-26

- A bunch of documentation cleanup. No code changes.


0.65   2010-10-25

- Actually put the right $VERSION in every package. No other changes.


0.64   2010-10-25

* All the constructors besides new() ended up calling new(), which meant that
  these constructors went through the parameter validation code
  twice. Avoiding this should make everything that constructs a new object
  (besides new() itself) a little faster.

  ** This change breaks DateTime::Fiscal::Retail454, but no other modules, to
     the best of my knowledge. **

- The t/39no-so.t test failed for some people. I can't reproduce it, but this
  release will hopefully fix the problem. Patch by Tokuhiro Matsuno. RT
  #62061.

- Added a section on the DateTime Project ecosystem to the docs. Addresses RT
  #60930.

- Fixed wiki links in the docs now that the wiki has moved to a new wiki
  platform.

- Restored some of the dzil-ification. The repo now has a very minimal
  Build.PL file which is just enough to build the XS code and run the
  tests. This fixes the total lack of prereqs in the META.* files. Reported by
  Bjørn-Olav. RT #62427.


0.63   2010-09-24

- Actually bump the version in the module files. Oops. Reported by bricas.


0.62   2010-09-23

- Don't try to test with DateTime::Format::Strptime unless we have a
  relatively recent version. Should fix some test failures.


0.61   2010-07-16

- Switching to dzil in 0.56 broke the --pp flag for the Build.PL. Reported by
  Jonathan Noack. RT #59421.


0.60   2010-07-03

- By default, Dist::Zilla generates a Build.PL that requires Module::Build
  0.3601+, but this distro really doesn't need any particular version.


0.59   2010-06-29

- More packaging fixes. This release makes sure that POD only shows up in the
  right files. In 0.56 through 0.58, some POD in the wrong place confused the
  search.cpan.org POD display code, and the main module's documentation wasn't
  viewable.


0.58   2010-06-28

- Versions 0.56 and 0.57 did not build XS properly when installing.


0.57   2010-06-26

- Make DateTime::LeapSecond have the same $VERSION as every other .pm file.


0.56   2010-06-26

- The set_formatter() method did not return the DateTime object, and did not
  actually validate the value provided for the formatter. Based on a patch by
  Andrew Whatson. RT #58506.

- Improved docs on floating time zone. Based on suggestions by Michael
  Svoboda. RT #56389.

- Added mention of end-of-month algorithms to docs on DateTime math. Based on
  a patch by Michael R. Davis. RT #58533.

- License is now Artistic 2.0.


0.55   2010-03-16

- Get all tests passing on 5.6.2. Thanks to Zefram for help spotting the
  problems.

- Moved code to my hg repo at http://hg.urth.org/hg/DateTime.pm.


0.54   2010-03-14

- Bumped the DateTime::TimeZone prereq to 1.09 to force people to use a modern
  version. Previously the minimum version was 0.59, and there have been a lot
  of bug fixes since then.

- String overloading now extends to string comparison, so a DateTime object
  can be compared to any string. In other words

  if ( $dt eq $string ) { ... }

  will simply stringify $dt and then do a normal string-is-equals
  check. Previously, this would blow up unless both operands were a DateTime
  object.

  Note that future versions of Test::More (0.95_01+) will no longer stringify
  arguments to is(), which means that older versions of DateTime may cause new
  test failures when you upgrade Test::More. It is highly recommended that you
  upgrade DateTime before upgrading to Test::More 0.95_01+.

  Patch by Michael Schwern. RT #55453.

- Allow passing end_of_month setting to $duration->inverse(). Requested by
  John Siracusa. RT #53985.