Re: Bugs in date/time functions.

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:37:39PM +1000, Phillip Shelton wrote:
> Minute()
> Second()
> Hour()
> Date2Unix()
> Unix2Date()
>
> All these functions do not respond the way an XL user expects them when the
> input is an error value.
>
> if (argv[0]->type == VALUE_ERROR)
>      return value_duplicate (argv[0]);
>
> The above two lines need to be added to each of them before the functions do
> anything else.
>
> On datevalue(),  in 1.0.4 this function works for both strings and numbers,
> but on XL97 it returns #VALUE for numbers, do we want to do that?  Also
> currently it returns 0 if given "Phillip", it should return #VALUE.
>
> I can send in a diff but it will have to be tonight as I an not at my linux
> box.

Hold off on this.  That can be handled at a higher level.