Date Formatting Problem

set dt 3/10/2008

set newdt [clock format [clock scan $dt] -format %Y%m%d]

 => 20080310

If I had date that also included the time, how would I use clock to just return the date?  For example my date/time value is: 20080921194800 and I want to return only 09/21/2008.

read up on “clock scan” in tclhelp.  It accepts several formats.

In this case you would only want to send teh first 8 digits of your timestamp to clock scan in the code above:

set dt [string range $datetime 0 7]

set newdt [clock format [clock scan $dt] -format %Y%m%d]

Thanks Rob.