Re: !! Take note !! CVS frozen !! RE: [Tcllib-devel] Tcllib Relea se

[Pat T. <pa...@zs...>]

"Techentin, Robert W." <tec...@ma...> writes:

>> For some reason %G is not being translated into four digit year. 
>
>I can verify that this is an HP-UX Tcl 8.4.6 problem.  On HP-UX 11.0, with
>ActiveTcl 8.4.6:
>
>mynock> tclsh
>% clock format [clock seconds] -format {%G/%m/%d %H:%M:%S}
>G/10/08 13:38:11
>% info patchlevel
>8.4.6
>

The clock format in < 8.5 depends upon the local platforms C library
implementation of strftime as I recall. I can see no reason to use %G
instead of %Y and I imagine %Y is better supported.

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