Using clock scan

[Anonymous]

To whom maybe able to help…

We are on Cloverleaf 5.3/AIX 5.2…

I am using the clock scan command to subtract current time from an registration date giving a time period. If its over 24hrs do not send the message. I’ve been getting these errors for time with a registration date of 00 as the hour (midnight). Is there are work around for this?

Tcl error:                                                                      

       msgId   = message1                                                      

       proc    = ‘tpsPharmFilter’                                              

       args    = ”                                                            

       result  = ‘unable to convert date-time string “20061015 0055″‘          

       errorInfo: ‘                                                            

unable to convert date-time string “20061015 0055”                              

   while executing                                                            

“clock scan “$adat $atim””                                                      

   (“run” arm line 78)                                                        

   invoked from within                                                        

“switch -exact — $mode {                                                      

     start  {                                                                  

           return {}                                                          

     }                                                                        

     run {                                                                    

       keylget args MSGID mh                                                  

       set dispList “”                                                        

# Get msgcontent                                                                

 …”                                                                          

   (procedure “tpsPharmFilter” line 5)                                        

  invoke

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[Mark Thompson]

Mary,

The clock scan will usually work the way you have it coded.  It is more robust if you put a colon in the time:

clock scan “20061015 00:55” returns  1160891700

- Mark Thompson
HealthPartners

[Charlie Bursell]

It is a valid point about the colon.  It seems the clock scan command is confused when the time is 00xx.  Another method, perhaps easier than inserting a colon is to add the seconds.

clock scan “20061015 005500” works

[Dick Bly]

try putting a : between the hour and minute

[John Mercogliano]

Just an add on.  This is a known bug with clock scan before 8.5 but has been fixed in 8.5. Regretfully, this is no help to us.  If you try clock scan 0000 it will work but any value between 0001 and 0059 will fail.  So to avoid problems, as a rule for QDX time should always be represented as as HH:MM.

John Mercogliano
Sentara Healthcare
Hampton Roads, VA

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