From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Jun 26 13:45:15 2000
Subject: date mentioned in save-file
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Stef Pillaert <stef dot pillaert at kahosl dot be>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:45:16 -0500 (CDT)

On 15-Jun-2000, Stef Pillaert <stef dot pillaert at kahosl dot be> wrote:

| To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
| 
| Subject: date mentioned in save-file
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| Bug report for Octave 2.1.30 configured for %OCTAVE_CONF_CANONICAL_HOST_TYPE%
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| Don't know wether this is an octave-bug. Probably it has more to do with the system where octave runs...
| When I save a file, there is a date mentioned in the file. This date is however not the local time on the machine
|  (well, it isn't the time I get when using ctime(time))
| 
| Repeat-By:
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| 
| octave:8> ctime(time)
| ans = Thu Jun 15 14:18:00 2000
| 
| octave:9> save - *
| # Created by Octave 2.1.30, Thu Jun 15 12:18:15 2000 <stef at toneti dot thuis dot be>

Currently, Octave uses the equivalent of

  asctime (gmtime (time ()))

to produce the time string.

I can see that this might be a problem.  Perhaps I should just add
`CUT' to the time string?  Something like

# Created by Octave 2.1.30, Thu Jun 15 12:18:15 2000 CUT <stef at toneti dot thuis dot be>

instead?  What do you think?

jwe



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