From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Dec  7 13:57:23 1998
Subject: 2.1.11 Errors using date and time functions
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: William D Kirby <wdkirby at ix dot netcom dot com>
Cc: "Report, Bug" <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 13:55:03 -0600 (CST)

On  7-Dec-1998, William D Kirby <wdkirby at ix dot netcom dot com> wrote:

| Testing of Octave 2.1.11 built with Cygwin beta 20.1.
| clock.m reports wrong date and time.
| 
| date causes octave to abort with a segmentation violation. The error
| message is something like [main] octave-2.1.11 handle exception: STATUS
| ACCESS VIOLATION.

I think the problem is with Octave's use of strftime, which assumes
GNU strftime.  The problem should be fixed in 2.1.12.

Thanks,

jwe