2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a016ca91..87ea1896 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2016-06-14         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>
 
+	* builtin.c (do_strftime): Fix handling of 3rd argument to work
+	as a standard boolean: non-null or non-zero.
+
+2016-06-14         Andrew J. Schorr     <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>
+
 	* gawkapi.c (node_to_awk_value): When caller requests AWK_SCALAR
 	or AWK_UNDEFINED, we need to call fixtype before we check the type.
 
diff --git a/builtin.c b/builtin.c
index 90a1fa07..ede02474 100644
--- a/builtin.c
+++ b/builtin.c
@@ -1928,9 +1928,9 @@ do_strftime(int nargs)
 		NODE *tmp;
 
 		if (nargs == 3) {
-			t3 = POP_SCALAR();
-			if ((t3->flags & (NUMCUR|NUMBER)) != 0)
-				do_gmt = (t3->numbr != 0);
+			t3 = fixtype(POP_SCALAR());
+			if ((t3->flags & NUMBER) != 0)
+				do_gmt = ! iszero(t3);
 			else
 				do_gmt = (t3->stlen > 0);
 			DEREF(t3);