Julain Date formatting

[gricelda lopez]

Hello

I am trying to format a header line for a output file. I am using tcl code for this job. I have an if statement where it checks the Julian day and if it

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[bill bearden]

Hello Gricelda,

I think clock format isn’t expecting a Julian date.

If juldt_int has a Julian date in it, try changing this line near the end of your script

 set juldt_str [clock format $juldt_int -format “%Y%m%d”]

to something like

 set juldt_str [clock format [clock scan $juldt_int -format “%J”] -format “%Y%m%d”]

Good luck

[gricelda lopez]

Hi Bill,

I tried your suggestion and it still didn’t work. I got the below error message:

[0:TEST] Tcl error:

msgId = message0

proc = ‘tps_northern_trust’

args = ”

result = ‘bad switch “-format”: must be -base or -gmt’

errorInfo: ‘

bad switch “-format”: must be -base or -gmt

   while executing

“clock scan $juldt_int -format “%j””

thank you 🙂

[gricelda lopez]

I found another way to add the days. Instead of using the julian date I am just adding days to my IF statement. So far it works, I will need to test it out a little more using different dates but so far so good.

[Tom Rioux]

Gricelda,

Try something like this:

(Using the given date of today = 20140416.   Adjust to how you need it)

set julian_dt [clock format [clock seconds] -format “%j”]

set day_of_wk [clock format [clock seconds] -format “%a”]

if {[string equal $day_of_wk “FRI”]} {

    set future_dt [clock scan “$julian_dt 2 day”]

} else if { …..(continue with rest of code

}

set new_date [clock format $future_dt -format %Y%m%d]

Hope this works for you!

Tom Rioux

[Author]

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