[Scilab-users] problem with getdate()

[Frederic Jourdin]

Effectively this is strange:
the 7th value of getdate(0) is 1 and should be 0 instead!
(Checked on Scilab 5.4.0)
Fred


Le 13/11/2012 11:11, jacques.beilin a écrit :
> Dear All,
>
> I am currently trying to learn Scilab. I Wrote a Gnu Octave GPS 
> date/time management package and I am trying to port it to Scilab. Il 
> notice a strange behaviour of a scilab function.
>
> I use the getdate() function in order to get date/time elements from 
> current date or from an epoch refered to unix timestamp (1970-01-01 
> 0h00UTC).
>
> Without any parameter getdate gives a date including the time zone.
>
> When called with a parameter (i.e. getdate(0)), the function gives 
> 1970 January, 1st at 1:00 instead of 0:00. the "0" parameter stands 
> for the number of seconds from 1970-01-01T00:00:00.
>
> -->getdate(0)
>   ans  =
>
>      1970.    1.    1.    1.    5.    1.    1.    0.    0.    0.
>
> I do not find the reason why the date needs to be corrected from time 
> zone when getdate is called with a parameter.
>
> On a computed set to UTC+00, getdate(0) gives the right result.
>
> I compared with Gnu Octave. The equivalent function is gmtime. 
> gmtile(0) gives the rigth result.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jacques Beilin
>
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