From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Jul 31 06:35:27 2000
Subject: Re: date mentioned in save-file
From: "Stef Pillaert (KAHO)" <stef dot pillaert at kahosl dot be>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 13:29:40 +0200

[Sorry for the late reply...Holidays (unfortunately over now...)]
----- Original Message -----
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>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 8:45 PM
Subject: date mentioned in save-file


> 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
> | --------
> | 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:
> | ---------
> |
> | 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
More clear, of course. But it would be even more clear (to me) if it were
possible that the result of ctime(time) would be used (maybe by setting some
variable or so...). I'm very sorry that I can't help by solving this problem
myself, unfortunately my programming skills are a bit inadequate...

Stef.



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