[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #31079] DATESTR function buggy before year 1970

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #31079 (project octave):

The datestr function from Octave 3.0.3 had other problems that prompted me to
change to using strftime.  See the following thread:

https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2008-September/006730.html

I checked in the following changes:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/f286a874617c
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/6b073da9d7fc

These changes do not handle DST.  It would be nice if they did, but I don't
know how to easily do that without localtime and mktime.  But I agree that
this is probably less of a problem than not handling dates prior to 1970.

Please let me know whether this fixes the problem for you.

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