[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: date weirdness (Freebsd, octave 3.2.4)
|
From: |
Jaroslav Hajek |
|
Subject: |
Re: date weirdness (Freebsd, octave 3.2.4) |
|
Date: |
Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:11:08 +0100 |
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Michael Goffioul
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Liam Groener <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Actually the problem is in the gnulib version of mktime that is used by
>> Octave's datestr. The gnulib mktime only works for dates latter than 1902. I
>> proposed a hack of datestr.m to get around this problem to the maintainers
>> list, but got no response. I've attached a copy of the revised datestr.m in
>> case you want to use it. By the way, datevec has the same problem.
>
> I'm puzzled by your comment. Octave-3.2.4 (version mentionned in
> the original bug report) does not use gnulib. And the develoment
> version of octave I compiled about 1 week ago is not using the
> gnulib version of mktime...
>
> Michael.
>
You're right, it doesn't. Maybe that will be enough to avoid the
trouble. Btw., the original example seems to work for me.
--
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz