Clock format difference between 5.8 and 6.1

[Richard Hart]

We are migrating from 5.8 to 6.1 on RHEL.

There appears to be an issue with the ‘%X’ for the clock format from hcitcl. Has anyone seen/fixed this?

ie

[5.8] he00387> hcitcl

hcitcl>puts “[clock format [clock seconds] -format {%a %x %X}]”

Wed 10/28/2015 03:42:05 PM

[6.1] he00387> hcitcl

hcitcl>puts “[clock format [clock seconds] -format {%a %x %X}]”

Wed 10/28/2015 15:42:23

Topic

[Charlie Bursell]

Check that your locale did not change

%X

On output, produces the time of day in a locale-dependent representation. On input, accepts whatever %X produces and is used to determine time of day.

[Russ Ross]

My hcitcl on AIX 6.1 and cloverleaf 6.0 produced what you showed for %X.

If this helps changing it to %r gives lower case am/pm for my test seen below:

Code:

hcitcl>puts “[clock format [clock seconds] -format {%a %x %r}]”
Wed 10/28/2015 10:58:15 am

Of course another test in the afternoon would need to be done to be certain, but I will leave that up to you to confirm if interested.

Russ Ross
RussRoss318@gmail.com

[Richard Hart]

Hi Guys.

Thanks for the replies.

Quote:

Check that your locale did not change

The 6.1 release was installed sometime ago and I am not aware of any changes to locale settimgs.

The details above were completed by setting root (5.8/6.1), executing hcitcl and then the clock command.

Quote:

… changing it to %r gives lower case am/pm

I’ll give it a go

It’s a low priority issue at the moment, but I’ll post updates.

[Jeff Dinsmore]

It looks like it may be a difference between Tcl 8.4 and 8.5.

RHEL CL 5.6:

Code:

hcitcl>info patchlevel
8.4.12
hcitcl>clock format [clock seconds] -format {%a %x %X}
Thu 10/29/2015 08:26:15 AM

RHEL CL 6.1.1:

Code:

hcitcl>info patchlevel
8.5.10
hcitcl>clock format [clock seconds] -format {%a %x %X}
Thu 10/29/2015 08:23:02

I always just build my time strings out of specific components so I get exactly what I want.

RHEL CL 5.6:

Code:

hcitcl>clock format [clock seconds] -format “%a %m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %p”
Thu 10/29/2015 08:46:08 AM

RHEL CL 6.1.1:

Code:

clock format [clock seconds] -format “%a %m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %p”
Thu 10/29/2015 08:26:13 AM

Jeff Dinsmore
Chesapeake Regional Healthcare

[Richard Hart]

Thanks Jeff.

I get the same results you did with RHEL 5.8 with Cloverleaf 5.8 and 6.1.

problem solved.

I tried the %r option and this also produced inconsistent results.

Code:

[5.8] aise01t> hcitcl
hcitcl>puts “[clock format [clock seconds] -format {%a %x %X}]”
Fri 10/30/2015 09:13:31 AM
hcitcl>puts “[clock format [clock seconds] -format {%a %x %r}]”
Fri 10/30/2015 09:13:42 AM

[6.1] aise01t> hcitcl
hcitcl>puts “[clock format [clock seconds] -format {%a %x %X}]”
Fri 10/30/2015 09:13:54
hcitcl>puts “[clock format [clock seconds] -format {%a %x %r}]”
Fri 10/30/2015 09:13:59 am

[Russ Ross]

I previously did not understand you needed an identical solution that works for both the old and the new environment.

I thought you were just trying to get something working for the new environment and leave the old environment alone.

Try the more granular solution that Jeff posted previously, which I think has a good chance working on both the old environment and new environment:

Code:

hcitcl>clock format [clock seconds] -format “%a %m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S %p”
Thu 10/29/2015 08:46:08 AM

Russ Ross
RussRoss318@gmail.com

[Charlie Bursell]

FYI

I asked this question on the Tcl forum.  Many others tested it and came to the same conclusion.  It is a bug that happened somewhere between 8.4 and 8.5

I have been asked to create a ticket on it.  As soon as I figure out how, I will do that   😀

[Richard Hart]

Thanks Charlie

[Charlie Bursell]

Bug report has been submitted

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