[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55650] Time Zone is not stable with function NOW (at least)

[Dave Schaack]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55650>

                 Summary: Time Zone is not stable with function NOW (at least)
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: dschaack
            Submitted on: Tue 05 Feb 2019 11:32:17 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.4.1
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

I'm a new user of Octave, but a long time user of Matlab.  For the first time
ever, I have need of time handling capabilities.  I immediately ran into this
very apparent problem.  Start Octave, and type in the following:


now
now  %Do it again, just to see that the result is consistent
days = datenum(datestr(now))
now  % Result changes to a different time zone!

Here is what I got:

>> now
ans =  737461.66489
>> now
ans =  737461.66493
>> days = datenum(datestr(now))
days =  737461.66510
>> now
ans =  737461.95683


What happened there at the end is that the local time used by Octave changed
from my correct local time to GMT time!




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