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  • #51187
    Sergey Sevastyanov
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    Hi all

    I ran into the following problem:

    Code:


    hcitcl>set time [clock seconds]
    1253045214
    hcitcl>clock format $time
    Tue Sep 15 4:06:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time 2009
    hcitcl>clock format $time -gmt 1
    Tue Sep 15 8:06:54 PM GMT 2009

    I am on Windows 2003, CL 5.7 (and therefore Tcl 8.4). I checked time zone settings in Windows and it set to “(GMT -05:00) Eastern Time (US&Canada)”. “Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes” option is selected.

    Running the same commands on my desktop PC (Win XP Professional) gives the same result – GMT is 1 hour off.

    On XP machine (with ActiveTcl 8.5) I tried the following commands:

    Code:


    % set time [clock seconds]
    1253046621
    % clock format $time -gmt 1
    Tue Sep 15 20:30:21 GMT 2009
    % clock format $time -timezone :UTC
    Tue Sep 15 20:30:21 UTC 2009
    % clock format $time -timezone :GMT
    Tue Sep 15 20:30:21 GMT 2009
    % clock format $time -locale LOCALE
    Tue Sep 15 16:30:21 EDT 2009

    So it is also 1 hour off for GMT.

    This affects Time Sent in Outlook for emails sent out of Cloverleaf.

    I have to use “-gmt 1” in clock format for smtp email, because Tcl 8.4 formats local time with “Eastern Daylight Time” (unlike EDT in Tcl 8.5). MS Exchange Server doesn’t understand “Eastern Daylight Time” so it assumes the time was given for GMT timezone and that makes Time Sent even worse.

    Does anyone know how to fix GMT time given by Tcl? I assume I could convert “Eastern Daylight Time” to “EDT” in my code but it just doesn’t seem right

    Any help will be appreciated

    Thanks

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    • #69100
      Charlie Bursell
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      http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/

      Will always give you the correct GMT time.  I have no problem on mt XP.

      tcl>clock format [clock seconds]

      Tue Sep 15 4:52:08 PM Central Daylight Time 2009

      tcl>clock format [clock seconds] -gmt 1

      Tue Sep 15 9:52:15 PM GMT 2009

      Of course this is Tcl 8.4.  There were some problems with the clock command up through 8.4.  It had to do with dates way back in the past or far into the future.  The problems were supposedly resolved in 8.5.  I have seen no reported problems with the GMT offset as long as the TIMEZONE was properly set.

      Since it is Tcl 8.5 and Cloverleaf users are using Tcl 8.4 you maybe should post your question on comp.lang.tcl

      You sure of your timezone setting?   😉

    • #69101
      Sergey Sevastyanov
      Participant

      Charlie

      Thank you for the link. So I was wrong about GMT – according to the link GMT (UTC) doesn’t change through the year. So London is now on BST (British Summer Time = GMT +1).

      That means that Tcl gives correct GMT time after all. So now I am completely confused why I get Sent time incorrect in Outlook.

      I wonder if this is Outlook/Exchange server problem or settings. But when I send email from Outlook to myself I get correct time. I also just sent email to my Outlook account from my private emai and the time is correct as well.

      I just tested this by sending email from Cloverleaf alerts by using “built-in” hcialert2email – but then again hcialert2email uses the same smtp.

      I will keep digging

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