Index: liboctave/oct-time.cc
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RCS file: /cvs/octave/liboctave/oct-time.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.32
diff -c -p -c -r1.32 oct-time.cc
*** liboctave/oct-time.cc	10 Dec 2007 06:26:20 -0000	1.32
--- liboctave/oct-time.cc	22 Jan 2008 09:49:19 -0000
*************** octave_base_tm::strftime (const std::str
*** 291,296 ****
--- 291,299 ----
  void
  octave_base_tm::init (void *p)
  {
+   if (! p)
+     return;
+ 
    struct tm *t = static_cast<struct tm*> (p);
    
    tm_sec = t->tm_sec;