From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Aug  1 12:37:38 2000
Subject: Re: date mentioned in save-file
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Stef Pillaert (KAHO)" <stef dot pillaert at kahosl dot be>
Cc: <bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:38:13 -0500 (CDT)

On 31-Jul-2000, Stef Pillaert (KAHO) <stef dot pillaert at kahosl dot be> wrote:

| > 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...

OK, in the devalopment sources, I've introduced the following variable:

 - Built-in Variable: save_header_format_string
     This variable specifies the the format string for the comment line
     that is written at the beginning of text-format data files saved by
     Octave.  The format string is passed to `strftime' and should
     begin with the character `#' and contain no newline characters.
     If the value of `save_header_format_string' is the empty string,
     the header comment is omitted from text-format data files.  The
     default value is

       "# Created by Octave VERSION, %a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %Z <USER at HOST>"

     See also: strftime..


jwe



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