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[Vladimir Zhbanov <vzhbanov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Dan.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 07:03:43AM -0400, Dan McMahill wrote:
> On 7/14/2015 10:11 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> >On 2015-07-14 15:09, Vladimir Zhbanov wrote:
> >>OK, the line in question was
> >>  d=`LANG=C date -d $(DATE_VERSION) "+%B %-d, %Y"` ; \
> >>
> >>I've written two scripts, one is combination of sed and awk:
> >>
> >>  echo DATE_VERSION | sed 's/\(....\)\(..\)\(..\)/\1 \2 \3 00 00 00/' |
> >>                      LANG=C awk '{print (strftime ("%B %-d, %Y",
> >>mktime ($0)))}'
> >>
> 
> I'm a little late on this but do all awk's (like solaris awk) support
> strftime?  Or will this push the "must use gmake" problem over to a "must
> use gawk" one?

We'd already discussed this on the geda-user list, and yes, you're
right, so I've fixed the issue using guile, since one of the users had
reported that the awk strftime function is not portable.

Cheers,
  Vladimir