bug in datestr.m with yyyy and dd

[John W. Eaton]

On 30-Jan-2009, Benjamin Lindner wrote:

| Hello,
| 
| in the current development sources, I believe there is a bug in 
| datestr.m with regard to the format strings used.
| 
| I see that a 4-digit year (YYYY) is changed to "%C%y" and the 2-digit 
| day to "%e".
| Consulting my C Programming Language Reference Manual, strftime's format 
| strings would be
| 
|    %Y  Year with century
|    %d  Day of the month (01-31)
| 
| datestr's test currently fails under mingw32, with the attached 
| changeset, all tests succeed.

I applied this changeset.

I don't think changing %C%y to %Y changes anything.  But %d pads with
0 while %e pads with a space.   But now I see that the Matlab docs say
that "dd" should pad with 0, so I'm not sure why we were using %e
anyway.

Thanks,

jwe