OriginalBugID: 4144 Bug
Version: 8.3b1
SubmitDate: '2000-02-08'
LastModified: '2000-02-10'
Severity: MED
Status: Released
Submitter: techsupp
ChangedBy: hobbs
OS: Windows NT
OSVersion: NT 4 patchlevel 5
Machine: beige. rather boring, really. I wish it were Mac G4 :-)
FixedDate: '2000-02-10'
FixedInVersion: 8.3b2
ClosedDate: '2000-10-25'
Name:
Bryan Oakley
Comments:
this seems to be a bug in many versions, dating back to 7.6, at least.
ReproducibleScript:
set s1 [clock scan ""]
set s2 [clock seconds]
puts "result of 'clock scan \"\"': $s1 ([clock format $s1])"
puts "result of 'clock seconds': $s2 ([clock format $s2])"
ObservedBehavior:
with the above script I'm seeing output similar to the following. Notice the two times are roughly an hour and fourteen minutes apart.
result of 'clock scan ""': 950046240 (Tue Feb 08 15:44:00 Central Standard Time
2000)
result of 'clock seconds': 950046240 (Tue Feb 08 16:58:29 Central Standard Time 2000)
DesiredBehavior:
[clock scan ""] should either return an error, or the current time.
According to the manpage, [clock scan ""] is legal, as the man page states "the dateString consists of zero or mor specifications of the following form".
Fixed in 8.3b2 to return current day at 00:00.
-- 02/10/2000 hobbs
