[Gllug] OT: Tcl and timezone info

Tethys tet at createservices.com
Thu Oct 23 15:18:47 UTC 2003


"Hong Chyr" writes:

>I'm interested to program a world clock application using Tcl/Tk,
>which will ultimately run on both Windoze and Linux. Any pointers
>to where I can get more information about timezone, daylight saving
>calculations, etc?

Tcl has a reasonably complete 1:1 mapping to the libc time functions[1].
So just use localtime, strftime etc., as you would from a C program.

Tet

[1] Are these in core Tcl yet, or still part of TclX?

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