[Maxima-discuss] parse_timedate error, was: Maxima 5.36.0 rpms & tar.gz posted

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2015-04-18, Wolfgang Dautermann <wol...@da...> wrote:

> Maxima 5.36.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> using Lisp CLISP 2.49 (2010-07-07)
> Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
> Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
> The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
> (%i1) :lisp (encode-universal-time 0 0 0 1 1 1900 0)
> 0
> (%i1) :lisp (decode-universal-time 0 0)
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 1
> 1
> 1900
> 0
> NIL
> 0
> (%i1)
>
> I assume, that is the expected result?

Well, I actually expected one or the other of those to cause an error
... I'm kind of confused now. Maybe the error is not coming from one or
the other of those functions. Perhaps you or someone else can execute
Maxima with the debugger enabled (maxima -g) and get a stack trace (just
enter backtrace at the debugger prompt) ??

> Sorry for the delay. I am rather busy now organizing a local Linux
> event ("Grazer Linuxtage"), which will be on 24th and 25th of April.

Terrific, keep up the good work!

best,

Robert Dodier