[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-1426279 ] wrong formatting of time long ago

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Bugs item #1426279, was opened at 2006-02-07 11:35
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Category: 06. Time Measurement
Group: current: 8.5a4
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Donal K. Fellows (dkf)
Assigned to: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Summary: wrong formatting of time long ago

Initial Comment:
With the HEAD:

% clock format -100000000000
Thu Jan -309 15:13:20 BST 1199

I'm not aware of any epoch when January had -309 days
in it... :-)

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Comment By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Date: 2006-07-30 23:31

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Donal, you needn't be supercilious about it. :)

Needless to say, there were a few bugs in handling
dates before Year 1 of the Common Era. (And there are
likely more, and do you think I want to hear about them?)

The fix adds a new format group %EE to represent whether
or not the date is in the Common Era.  Documentation and
tests updated accordingly.

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Comment By: Donal K. Fellows (dkf)
Date: 2006-02-07 11:39

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Also, the timezone is wrong (BST doesn't apply in winter
months, even assuming they had it back then) in the following:

% clock format -10000000000
Mon Feb 10 07:13:20 BST 1653


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