Error in datestr.m in Octave-3.2.0 MingW

[Philip Nienhuis]

Hi,

Octave's function datestr.m fails for dates before Jan 2, 1970 in the
MingW build 3.2.0:

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warning: mark_as_command is obsolete and will be removed from a future
version of Octave
octave-3.2.0 > datestr(datenum(1970, 1, 1))
ans = 00-Jan-1900
octave-3.2.0 > datestr(datenum(1970, 1, 2))
ans = 02-Jan-1970
octave-3.2.0 >

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The previous 3.0.3 VC++ Windows build is OK in this respect.

I haven't checked other binary octave versions yet.

While perusing the source code of datestr.m I couldn't find the spot
where the actual conversion takes place (but then again I'm neither an 
octave nor a C++ guru).
(Speculation (sorry): I suspect the use of strftime() may be related to 
this.)

Thanks,

Philip