Additional date string types for datevec

[David Bateman]

When looking at getting all of the octave-forge test code running, I was
trying to fix datesplit.m in octave-forge. It seems that the octave
version of datevec.m is missing some of the matlab compatible default
parse string types. I believe the attached patch adds most of them

D.

Index: scripts/time/datevec.m
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/octave/scripts/time/datevec.m,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -c -r1.4 datevec.m
*** scripts/time/datevec.m      30 Jun 2006 20:46:34 -0000      1.4
--- scripts/time/datevec.m      9 Oct 2006 20:07:02 -0000
***************
*** 63,69 ****
      std_formats{++nfmt} = "HH:MM";                  # 15
      std_formats{++nfmt} = "HH:MM PM";               # 16
      std_formats{++nfmt} = "mm/dd/yyyy";             # 23
!     # custom formats
      std_formats{++nfmt} = "mmmyy";                  # 12
      std_formats{++nfmt} = "mm/dd/yyyy HH:MM";
    endif
--- 63,80 ----
      std_formats{++nfmt} = "HH:MM";                  # 15
      std_formats{++nfmt} = "HH:MM PM";               # 16
      std_formats{++nfmt} = "mm/dd/yyyy";             # 23
!     std_formats{++nfmt} = "mmm-dd-yyyy HH:MM:SS"; 
!     std_formats{++nfmt} = "mmm-dd-yyyy";
!     std_formats{++nfmt} = "dd mmm yyyy HH:MM:SS";
!     std_formats{++nfmt} = "dd mmm yyyy";
!     std_formats{++nfmt} = "mmm dd yyyy HH:MM:SS";
!     std_formats{++nfmt} = "mmm dd yyyy";
!     std_formats{++nfmt} = "dd.mmm.yyyy HH:MM:SS";
!     std_formats{++nfmt} = "dd.mmm.yyyy";
!     std_formats{++nfmt} = "mmm.dd.yyyy HH:MM:SS";
!     std_formats{++nfmt} = "mmm.dd.yyyy";
! 
!    # custom formats
      std_formats{++nfmt} = "mmmyy";                  # 12
      std_formats{++nfmt} = "mm/dd/yyyy HH:MM";
    endif

2006-10-09  David Bateman  <address@hidden>

        * time/datevec.m: Add additional compatible default parsing
        strings