gawk: strftime configuration

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

there appeared a suggestion in comp.lang.awk:
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 04:42:45 GMT, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> [...] strftime [...], under Solaris, there are problems.
> The problems seem to be basically that it defaults to using the
> system-supplied strftime if possible [...]
> Note further that the best overall condition would be if GAWK
> would use the same routines as does GNU date.

As I think this may be a good thing to do, I forward it here.

Perhaps I'll have time to implement it.  Or perhaps you (Arnold) will
be quicker again.

Stepan