Re: mktime() and invalid dates

[Jean-Philippe Guérard]

Le 2010-04-25 23:03:00 +0300, Aharon Robbins écrivait :
> 
> Fixed in my development version (which might not yet be in CVS):
> 
> $ ./gawk 'BEGIN{ print mktime("2010 03 32 25 61 61")
> >               print mktime("2010 04 02 02 02 01")
> > }'
> -1
> 1270162921

Is it a good idea to fix this? For me, it's more a feature than a bug. It can 
be used to implement 
simple date calculation (e.g. 'strftime( "%c", mktime(YEAR " " MONTH " " DAY+60 
" " TIME ))' to get
the date in 60 days, without worrying about end of months, year end and leap 
year).

It might be better to have this more strict check as an option.

Regards,

Jean-Philippe

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