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#1620 clock scan - aberant behaviour

obsolete: 8.3
closed-works-for-me
Kevin B KENNY
06. Time Measurement (190)
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2003-02-16
2001-09-07
Anonymous
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On Solaris 2.8 (SPARC U10) the following command:
"clock scan "19700101T00:00:00" issued twice returns
diferent
outputs.
My ltimezone is EET.

Ex:

bash-2.03$ tclsh
% clock scan "19700104T00:00:00"
252000
% clock scan "19700104T00:00:00"
248400

Discussion

  • Donal K. Fellows

    Donal K. Fellows - 2001-09-07
    • labels: 105657 --> 06. Time Measurement
    • assigned_to: dkf --> kennykb
     

  • Kevin B KENNY

    Kevin B KENNY - 2003-02-16

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    I just tried this a number of ways on Solaris 2.8, and consistently
    got the (correct) value of 248400.

    I'm at a loss to explain the one-hour difference that the original
    submitter reports. Had it been three or four hours, I'd speculate
    that there was another thread manipulating $env(TZ) at the time,
    in order to execute [clock format ... -gmt true]. If that were the
    case, though, then recent changes to tclClock.c have fixed the
    problem anyway.

     

  • Kevin B KENNY

    Kevin B KENNY - 2003-02-16
    • status: open --> closed-works-for-me