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Re: problem with mktime
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: problem with mktime |
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Date: |
Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:49:38 -0700 |
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On 06/21/2010 01:40 PM, Petko Bogdanov wrote:
> gawk 'BEGIN{print mktime("2008 03 09 02 37 43")}'
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> outputs -1
> although the date format specification is correct
The _format_ is correct, but the _timestamp_ is not. No such time exists in
North America,
due to the daylight-saving time switchover. Gawk is within its rights to reject
invalid time stamps like that.