Re: [bug-gawk] Problem with strftime

[Hermann Peifer]

On 21/10/2011 15:05, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Hi. The problem is defining "reasonable" negative values. I don't want
> to uglify the code and in any case whatever heuristic I use will be
> wrong for someone.
>
> Perhaps it's reasonable to allow it to be negative by one day, to allow
> for time zone differences, but that's it.
>
> Unless someone complains bitterly, I'm going to leave it as is.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold

No complaint or anything from my side, I just thought that as mktime() 
also generates negative values, e.g.:

$ TZ=UTC gawk 'BEGIN{print mktime("1969 12 31 0 0 0")}'
-86400

...it could also make sense that strftime() can convert this 
(reasonable) negative value back to a string. But I do see the problem 
with separating "reasonable" negative values from "unreasonable" ones.

Hermann