Re: Universal time makes me sad

[bill@cambridge.apple.com (Bill St. Clair)]

>Hello,
>
>    I am still Lisping and life if pretty grand, however I have some very
>strange behaviour in my program having to do with converting universal
>time into seconds, minutes, hours etc.  I have written a program which
>demonstrates this problem.  I hope someone can either point out the
>error I am making or patch the interpreter.

The problem is that ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME as patched by "mcl2.0p1.fasl"
forgot to initialize the longDateRec.era slot before calling #_LongDate2Secs.
Yours is the second report of this bug today. If you want a patch, ask for
"encode-time-patch". This patch will be part of patch 3 for MCL 2.0.