Re: Getting GMT time

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".
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:09:39 2006