[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59979] Unexpected format for output from datevec

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #19, bug #59979 (project octave):

If I pass a duration to datevec, I would probably expect it to return the
number of years, months, hours, minutes, and seconds of the elapsed time
represented by the duration.  In that case, I also wouldn't expect elapsed
time to be negative.  But if datevec is supposed to return an actual date,
then it doesn't make sense to have the month or day set to zero.  OTOH, it
isn't always returning correct calendar dates anyway because calendar dates
have done some strange things.

Maybe this is just a poorly defined function?

I'm not sure what the best fix is, but the current behavior seems bad because
sometimes it just looks wrong and it is also not consistent with the results
Matlab produces, so without some changes we are sure to see more bug reports.

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