Add 1 Minute (clock scan)

[Max Drown (Infor)]

Does anyone have a clever or simple way to add one minute to a date/time stamp? I started writing a script to do this, but quickly realized that you’d have to check the minutes, hours, days, months, and years! (Ex. 20091231235959).

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[Max Drown (Infor)]

Answered my own question. The “clock scan” command is powerful!!

Code:

set time “20091231 235959”
set format “%Y%m%d%H%M%S”
set time [clock format [clock scan “+1 minute” -base [clock scan $time]] -format $format]

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[Robert Kersemakers]

Those are the best answers, aren’t they?  😉

Just remember to include the current timezone in your $time. It could prevent problems when switching from/to Daylight Saving Time. Very slim chance at that happening, but…

Zuyderland Medisch Centrum; Heerlen/Sittard; The Netherlands

[Charlie Bursell]

You could always add the flag -gmt 1 and do all of your time in GMT  🙂

You are correct the clock command is very powerful.  It will do things like yesterday, 3 days ago, next week, ecen fortnight,

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