Re: Getting GMT time

From: "Donal K. Fellows" <donal.k.fellows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:48:12 GMT

Gerald W. Lester wrote:

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


You do know that Microsoft Windows has been making that mistake for
years? Tcl tries very hard to paper over the fact FWIW (there are some
ugly edge cases though.)

Donal.
.

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