On Mar 26, 2010, at 12:55 AM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
'm puzzled by your comment. Octave-3.2.4 (version mentionned in
the original bug report) does not use gnulib. And the develoment
version of octave I compiled about 1 week ago is not using the
gnulib version of mktime...
Yeh, you're right. The mktime used is the built-in Unix one. Regardless, mktime on my Mac returns 0 for years prior to 1902. So maybe this is just a problem for Freebsd derived unixes.