Re: problem with mktime

[Petko Bogdanov]

Thanks a lot!

Petko Bogdanov
1-805-699-5048
Department of Computer Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~petko/


On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 06/21/2010 01:40 PM, Petko Bogdanov wrote:
>
> > gawk 'BEGIN{print mktime("2008 03 09 02 37 43")}'
> >
> > outputs -1
> > although the date format specification is correct
>
> The _format_ is correct, but the _timestamp_ is not.  No such time exists
> in North America,
> due to the daylight-saving time switchover.  Gawk is within its rights to
> reject
> invalid time stamps like that.
>