From maintainers-request at octave dot org Sat Jan 7 03:54:18 2006 Subject: Re: Octave-forge Date Functions Patch From: William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno To: Bill Denney Cc: maintainers at octave dot org, bug@octave.org Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 17:52:36 +0800 On 1/7/06, Bill Denney wrote: > Here is a patch to the functions datesplit, datevec, and datenum to allow > formats (as in strptime) to be used. It's very slow (at least on my > testing in cygwin which I know is slow to begin with), so it may be > worthwhile for someone to vectorize strptime. > Hi, maybe you would like to ask around before doing this to prevent duplication of work ;) I've fixed the functions, and they're attached; you would like to look at the links below :) I haven't really looked at your attachment (just skimmed over it), but you might want to merge the patches, so... Actually I don't count on merged patches being committed (remember your patch about the docstrings?) I've done those more than two weeks ago, but I haven't actually committed the patches yet, since I'm still waiting for strfind (in discussion with Alois) and strptime (needs a patch). Unfortunately, John hasn't applied my strptime patch yet :( http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/bug-octave/2005/1316 http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/bug-octave/2005/1317 -- William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno