[Maxima-discuss] encode_time errors in Clisp + Windows, was: Announcing version 5.40.0

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

On 2017-06-01, Wolfgang Dautermann <wol...@da...> wrote:

> C:\maxima-5.40.0\bin>maxima -l clisp
> Maxima 5.40.0 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 (decode-universal-time (encode-universal-time 0 7 8 5 7 2024))
> 0
> 7
> 8
> 5
> 7
> 2024
> 4
> T
> 8
> (%i1) decode_time(encode_time(2024, 7, 5, 8, 7, 0));
> (%o1)                     [2024, 7, 5, 9, 7, 0, - 7]
>
> Clisp with Wine does the same. Maybe again a timezone issue? We had
> something similiar with the parse_timedate() function. Strange.

I believe I've fixed the problem, with commit 87267ab. Can you please
try it and see if it works for you. I tested with different time zones
(UTC-7 and UTC+9) and Clisp + Windows (via Wine) and other Lisps on
Linux and it works OK in those cases.

best,

Robert Dodier