Re: [clock] behaves just slow (Re: [clock scan] behaves inconsistently in Tcl8.5 (was: Re: [clock scan day] behaves differentyl in Tcl8.5 than in Tcl8.4))

"Bob Techentin" <techentin.robert@mayo.edu> writes:

> "Donald Arseneau" <asnd@triumf.ca> wrote
> >
> > I would like "now" to be a valid time string, so
> > [clock format now] etc. to reduce the nesting.
>
> Well, it is sort of a time string.
>
> clock format [clock scan now]
>
> should give you the current date and time.

However

        clock format [clock seconds]

should be faster. 'clock scan now' will internally reduce to 'clock
seconds', but has the overhead of parsing now, etc.

-- 
So long,
	Andreas Kupries <akupries@shaw.ca>
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