Re: datestr (datenum (1969, 1, 1), 0) does not work on octave-3.3.51+ on MinGW

[Philip Nienhuis]

Hi Tatsuro

Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Sorry for my late response.
> With http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/n3049477/datestr.m, the error 
> in time.cc from datestr
> (datenum (1969, 1, 1), 0) has been disappeared.
> 
> I do not know this correction is preferable for the octave itself but at 
> least solve the bug.

Yes.
But mind you, this version of datestr.m has probably been deprecated for
a reason.
Perhaps it was for bugs with correct interpretation of daylight saving
time?

If that doesn't matter for you (like it doesn't for me), this old
version is good enough.

> Perhaps correction of mktime on MinGw is preferable but I do not enough 
> knowledge and time to fix
> this.

I don't think mktime() as it stands is a good basis. Some other solution
(not based on elapsed number of seconds since some epoch) is desired.

P.