New year_week_day() calendar for specifying a date using the year, the week
number, and the day of the week, alongside a start value representing the
day of the week that is considered the start of the week. Using
start = clock_weekdays$monday is identical to the iso_year_week_day()
calendar, and using start = clock_weekdays$sunday is useful for representing
the Epidemiological calendar used by the US CDC guidelines (similar to what
is supported by lubridate::epiweek() and lubridate::epiyear()) (#110).
New date_spanning_seq() for generating a regular sequence along the full
span of a date or date-time vector (i.e. along [min(x), max(x)]). It is
similar to tidyr::full_seq(), but is a bit simpler and currently has better
handling of some edge cases. Additionally included in the low-level API are
calendar_spanning_seq(), time_point_spanning_seq(), and
duration_spanning_seq() (#279).
New date_time_info() and zoned_time_info() low-level helpers for accessing
the previous/next transition times, the offset from UTC, and the current time
zone abbreviation (#295).
calendar_leap_year() now supports the year-quarter-day and iso-year-week-day
calendars (#332, #333).
The storage mechanism for the duration, sys-time, naive-time, and zoned-time types has been altered to more correctly represent the full range of values allowed by the underlying C++ types. This means that if you have serialized a value of one of these types with an old version of clock, then it will no longer unserialize correctly going forward.
Technically, rather than storing a variable number of integer vectors
representing ticks, ticks of a day, and ticks of a second, we now always store
values of these types within two double vectors, regardless of the precision.
This simplifies the implementation and allows us to represent the full range
of possible int64_t values (#331).
date_zone() and date_set_zone() have been soft-deprecated in favor of
date_time_zone() and date_time_set_zone() (#326).clock now compiles significantly faster (on a 2018 Intel Mac, it used to take ~70 seconds for a full compilation, and now takes ~25 seconds) (#322).
%% and %/% operators now return a missing value when the right-hand side
is 0. For %/%, this is consistent with 2L %/% 0L, which returns a
missing value, rather than with 2 %/% 0, which returns Inf, since
infinite durations are not supported (#349).
seq() methods for durations and time points handle the empty sequence cases
of from > to && by > 0 and from < to && by < 0 better when from and to
are very far apart (i.e. when they would otherwise result in overflow if they
were subtracted).
zoned_time_zone() and zoned_time_set_zone() are no longer generic, and now
only work for zoned-times.
Documented clock's current stance on leap seconds in the FAQ vignette (clock ignores them like POSIXct) (#309).
Duration vectors now work as .before and .after arguments of
slider::slide_index() and friends (#306).
All as_*() generics exported by clock now include ... in their signature
to help with extensibility of converting to clock types. These are the only
clock generics that are currently "blessed" as fully extensible (#348).
as.character() has been implemented for durations.
Fixed vec_ptype_full() and vec_ptype_abbr() methods for sys-time and
naive-time objects (#302).
Renamed locale.h to fill.h to avoid clock's locale.h being chosen over a
system header of the same name on some CentOS machines (#310).
Skipped a test on 32-bit architectures to work around a bug in base R (#312).
R >=3.5.0 is now required, which is in line with tidyverse standards.
vctrs >=0.6.1 and rlang >=1.1.0 are now required.
date_seq() and the seq() methods for the calendar, time point, and
duration types now allow from > to when by > 0. This now results in a
size zero result rather than an error, which is more in line with
rlang::seq2() and generally has more useful programmatic properties (#282).
The sys-time method for as.POSIXct() now correctly promotes to a precision
of at least seconds before attempting the conversion. This matches the
behavior of the naive-time method (#278).
Removed the dependency on ellipsis in favor of the equivalent functions in rlang (#288).
Updated tests related to writing UTF-8 on Windows and testthat 3.1.2 (#287).
Updated all snapshot tests to use rlang 1.0.0 (#285).
tzdb >=0.3.0 is now required to get access to the latest time zone database information (2022a).
vctrs >=0.4.1 and rlang >=1.0.4 are now required (#297).
cpp11 >=0.4.2 is now required to ensure that a fix related to unwind protection is included.
R >=3.4.0 is now required. This is consistent with the standards of the tidyverse.
New date_count_between(), calendar_count_between(), and
time_point_count_between() for computing the number of units of time between
two dates (i.e. the number of years, months, days, or seconds). This has a
number of uses, like computing the age of an individual in years, or
determining the number of weeks that have passed since the start of the year
(#266).
Modulus is now defined between a duration vector and an integer vector
through <duration> %% <integer>. This returns a duration vector containing
the remainder of the division (#273).
Integer division is now defined for two duration objects through
<duration> %/% <duration>. This always returns an integer vector, so be
aware that using very precise duration objects (like nanoseconds) can easily
generate a division result that is outside the range of an integer. In that
case, an NA is returned with a warning.
New date_time_parse_RFC_3339() and sys_time_parse_RFC_3339() for parsing
date-time strings in the
RFC 3339 format. This format
is a subset of ISO 8601 representing the most common date-time formats seen in
internet protocols, and is particularly useful for parsing date-time strings
returned by an API. The default format parses strings like
"2019-01-01T01:02:03Z" but can be adjusted to parse a numeric offset from
UTC with the offset argument, which can parse strings like
"2019-01-01T01:02:03-04:30" (#254).
To align more with RFC 3339 and ISO 8601 standards, the default formats used in many of the date formatting and parsing functions have been slightly altered. The following changes have been made:
Date-times (POSIXct):
date_format() now prints a T between the date and time.
date_time_parse_complete() now expects a T between the date and time
by default.
Sys-times:
format() and as.character() now print a T between the date and time.
sys_time_parse() now expects a T between the date and time by default.
Naive-times:
format() and as.character() now print a T between the date and time.
naive_time_parse() now expects a T between the date and time by
default.
Zoned-times:
format() and as.character() now print a T between the date and time.
zoned_time_parse_complete() now expects a T between the date and time
by default.
Calendars:
format() and as.character() now print a T between the date and time.
year_month_day_parse() now expects a T between the date and time by
default.
Further improved documentation of undefined behavior resulting from attempting to parse sub-daily components of a string that is intended to be parsed into a Date (#258).
Bumped required minimum version of tzdb to 0.2.0 to get access to the latest time zone database information (2021e) and to fix a Unicode bug on Windows.
New date_start() and date_end() for computing the date at the start or
end of a particular precision, such as the "end of the month" or
the "start of the year". These are powered by calendar_start() and
calendar_end(), which allow for even more flexible calendar-specific
boundary generation, such as the "last moment in the fiscal quarter" (#232).
New invalid_remove() for removing invalid dates. This is just a wrapper
around x[!invalid_detect(x)], but works nicely with the pipe (#229).
All clock types now support is.nan(), is.finite(), and is.infinite().
Additionally, duration types now support abs() and sign() (#235).
tzdb 0.1.2 is now required, which fixes compilation issues on RHEL7/Centos (#234).
Parsing into a date-time type that is coarser than the original string is now
considered ambiguous and undefined behavior. For example, parsing a string
with fractional seconds using date_time_parse(x) or
naive_time_parse(x, precision = "second") is no longer considered correct.
Instead, if you only require second precision from such a string, parse the
full string, with fractional seconds, into a clock type that can handle them,
then round to seconds using whatever rounding convention is required for your
use case, such as time_point_floor() (#230).
For example:
x <- c("2019-01-01 00:00:59.123", "2019-01-01 00:00:59.556")
x <- naive_time_parse(x, precision = "millisecond")
x
#> <time_point<naive><millisecond>[2]>
#> [1] "2019-01-01 00:00:59.123" "2019-01-01 00:00:59.556"
x <- time_point_round(x, "second")
x
#> <time_point<naive><second>[2]>
#> [1] "2019-01-01 00:00:59" "2019-01-01 00:01:00"
as_date_time(x, "America/New_York")
#> [1] "2019-01-01 00:00:59 EST" "2019-01-01 00:01:00 EST"
Preemptively updated tests related to upcoming changes in testthat (#236).
New date_seq() for generating date and date-time sequences (#218).
clock now uses the tzdb package to access the date library's API. This means that the experimental API that was to be used for vroom has been removed in favor of using the one exposed in tzdb.
zone_database_names() and zone_database_version() have been removed in
favor of re-exporting tzdb_names() and tzdb_version() from the tzdb
package.
clock now interprets R's Date class as naive-time rather than sys-time. This means that it no longer assumes that Date has an implied time zone of UTC (#203). This generally aligns better with how users think Date should work. This resulted in the following changes:
date_zone() now errors with Date input, as naive-times do not have a
specified time zone.
date_parse() now parses into a naive-time, rather than a sys-time, before
converting to Date. This means that %z and %Z are now completely
ignored.
The Date method for date_format() now uses the naive-time format()
method rather than the zoned-time one. This means that %z and %Z are
no longer valid format commands.
The zoned-time method for as.Date() now converts to Date through an
intermediate naive-time, rather than a sys-time. This means that the
printed date will always be retained, which is generally what is expected.
The Date method for as_zoned_time() now converts to zoned-time through
an intermediate naive-time, rather than a sys-time. This means that the
printed date will always attempt to be retained, if possible, which is
generally what is expected. In the rare case that daylight saving time makes
a direct conversion impossible, nonexistent and ambiguous can be used
to resolve any issues.
New as_date() and as_date_time() for converting to Date and POSIXct
respectively. Unlike as.Date() and as.POSIXct(), these functions always
treat Date as a naive-time type, which results in more consistent and
intuitive conversions. Note that as_date() does conflict with
lubridate::as_date(), and the lubridate version handles Dates differently
(#209).
Added two new convenient helpers (#197):
date_today() for getting the current date (Date)
date_now() for getting the current date-time (POSIXct)
Fixed a bug where converting from a time point to a Date or POSIXct could round incorrectly (#205).
Errors resulting from invalid dates or nonexistent/ambiguous times are now a little nicer to read through the usage of an info bullet (#200).
Formatting a naive-time with %Z or %z now warns that there were
format failures (#204).
Fixed a Solaris ambiguous behavior issue from calling pow(int, int).
Linking against cpp11 0.2.7 is now required to fix a rare memory leak issue.
Exposed an extremely experimental and limited C++ API for vroom (#322).
NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.