Re: winter and summer time confusion in clock and tcl 8.4.12 and 8.5a4 (starpack)

* "MartinLemburg@UGS" <martin.lemburg.ugs@xxxxxxx>
| % clock format [clock seconds]
| Thu Mar 30 13:59:02 +0100 2006
| % clock format [clock scan now]
| Thu Mar 30 14:00:02 +0100 2006
|
| But it is one hour later! It does not seem to matter, if "clock scan
| now" or "clock seconds" is used!

- is TZ set on the commandline prior to invoking tclsh? Does
'date' report the correct date on the commandline?

On my system (Suse Linux 9.3), this currently is
% date -R
Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:47:51 +0200
Note the +0200.

- is TZ set: $env(TZ) *in* tclsh?

As Michael pointed out, the +0100 looks like tclsh gets the wrong idea
of the timezone you're in.

R'
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