Re: Getting GMT time

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