Documentation of LTIME

[Janus Weil]

2016-11-26 13:45 GMT+01:00 Manfred Schwarb <manfred99@gmx.ch>:
> I tried g77, and it gives the same result, 10 and 26.
> So it's this way since ages.
>
> And it makes sense, as ltime seems to be a simple wrapper around localtime(3),
> and the manual page for localtime states:
>
>   tm_mon    The number of months since January, in the range 0 to 11.

and

       tm_mday   The day of the month, in the range 1 to 31.


That's a pretty funny definition, though. Why do you let the days
start from one, but the months start from zero? I really wonder how
that came about ...

Note than gfortran also has the (non-standard) intrinsic IDATE, which
has the days and months starting from 1 and is documented that way:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/IDATE.html

Its implementation in libgfortran/intrinsics/date_and_time.c also uses
a call to 'localtime', but then adds 1 to the month ;)

Cheers,
Janus