[Remind-Fans] Beta version of Remind 3.1 is available

[David F. Skoll]

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Hello,

Some of you might have corresponded with me... I'm the author of Remind.
I had somehow inadvertantly turned off delivery of remind-fans a long
time ago, and had assumed that the list had died due to lack of interest.

Well, I was most surprised to discover a list with over 400 members!

Anyway, I've recently returned to Remind hacking after a hiatus of several
years.  Please try out Remind 03.01.00 BETA, available at:

Tarball: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/remind-03.01.00-BETA.tar.gz
GPG SIG: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/remind-03.01.00-BETA.tar.gz.sig

Changes since 03.00.24 follow.

Regards and happy Remind hacking,

David.

CHANGES TO REMIND

* Version 3.1 Patch 0

+ MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS

o Remind now has a new datatype: A DATETIME object represents a date AND
  a time (to the nearest minute).  DATETIME constants are written
  as '2007-09-01 at 14:33'.  Various operators and functions have been
  modified to do sensible things with DATETIMEs and several new DATETIME
  functions have been added.

o The SPECIAL COLOR reminder type has been hacked to behave more like
  a MSG type.  It sorts properly and is emitted as a normal reminder
  in non-calendar mode.  Simlarly, SPECIAL HTML sorts with -g as well.

+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS

o A new "tzconvert" function lets you convert datetimes between different
  time zones.  It's only as good as your C library, so test thoroughly
  please!  Based on a patch from Stefan Wehr.

o TkRemind sorts reminders by invoking Remind with the '-g' option.

o The time and date separator characters can be changed at runtime by
  setting $TimeSep and $DateSep respectively.

o The simple calendar ('-s') option can be immediately followed by an 'a'.
  This causes Remind to output reminders with deltas before the actual
  trigger date.  Based on an idea and patch from Frank Terbeck.

+ MINOR CHANGES

o Default date separator is now '-' instead of '/'

o trigdate() and trigtime() behave differently - they return the integer 0
  if the last reminder could not be computed or did not have an AT clause
  (respectively).

o Maximum length of variable names has been increased from 12 to 16 characters.

+ BUG FIXES

o rem2ps would produce invalid PostScript in some rare cases
  (eg, for February 2007).  This has been fixed.



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