And improve an error message.

In anticipation of adding settings and stats.

configure checks if you have lcov & genhtml; these can be specified
with --with-lcov and/or --with-genhtml.

If they are available, the make target coverage can be executed:

- make clean, then make check with CC=gcc and CFLAGS set so that
  inputs for gcov/lcov are generated.

- lcov creates the src/coverage subdir and generates a targetfile
  there.

- genhtml generates HTML reports in src/coverage.

Also change the date outputs to include time zones.

Led to some bugfixing in the VFP code (generating proper error
messages).