Re: Lost Bug Tracker Updates

[Philip Nienhuis]

Rik wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> datetick bug in 3.2.4 was apparently already fixed in dev code.  I've
> removed it from the list.
> 

AFAICS this one hasn't been fixed completely yet, so maybe this bug should
be restored? 
With the script in Mercurial from:
Wed Dec 08 07:57:16 2010 -0500 (8 hours ago)
changeset 11324         e773d57de572
(called datestr_.m by me to distinguish it from the "buggy" "original" one
in share/octave/3.2.4/m/time/:

octave-3.2.4.exe:6> tmp = datenum (1853, 9, 15)
tmp =  677053
octave-3.2.4.exe:7> datestr_ (tmp)
ans = 00-Jan-1900
octave-3.2.4.exe:8> tmp = datenum (1901, 9, 15)
tmp =  694584
octave-3.2.4.exe:9> datestr_ (tmp)
ans = 00-Jan-1900
octave-3.2.4.exe:10>


The old datestr.m from Octave 3.0.2 or 3.03 does:

octave-3.2.4.exe:10> tmp = datenum (1853, 9, 15)
tmp =  677053
octave-3.2.4.exe:11> datestr (tmp)
ans = 15-Sep-1853
octave-3.2.4.exe:12> tmp = datenum (1901, 9, 15)
tmp =  694584
octave-3.2.4.exe:13> datestr (tmp)
ans = 15-Sep-1901
octave-3.2.4.exe:14>

(This old version probably has other bugs -DST issues? don't know- but its
ability to correctly show dates from (long) before 1970 is vital for me)


Philip

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