Re: Getting GMT time

Anonymous AtWork wrote: 
Bryan Oakley wrote:

Anonymous AtWork wrote:

I want to know what the GMT time is. If I do [clock seconds], I get the local time. I can add 5 hours, but what about DST when it is 6 (or 4--whatever the difference is). There's probably some kind of non-portable craziness I could do to find out what TZ the computer is in and figure out the local algorithm for adjustment thereof, but since Tcl already knows all that (right?) it seems like it could do it for me.

Is there a simple, 2-3 line way to do this?



Look at the clock man page, especially where it mentions the -gmt option to "clock format".


That will *format* the number of seconds I have as a GMT time. But the number of seconds I have isn't GMT, it's local. Given the local time, I want to know the GMT time.

Why in the world would you think the seconds returned by [clock seconds] is local?

BTW, did you even try what Bryan suggested?
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