How do I get time in another time zone ??

[Dave]

I'm in the UK using British Summer Time (BST). I'd like to get the time
in New York (EDT). I believe there is an option to 'clock' to change the
time zone, but any combination I try gives the wrong result.

This is what I have:

set foobar [clock format [clock seconds]]

Ideally, I'd like to get the time in this format:

Sun Oct 19 17:38:07 EDT (New York time)

I can obviously add '(New York time)'. Any suggestions how I can get the
time in the EDT timezone, and ideally in the format shown.

dave

[Kevin Kenny]

Dave wrote:
> I'm in the UK using British Summer Time (BST). I'd like to get the time
> in New York (EDT). I believe there is an option to 'clock' to change the
> time zone, but any combination I try gives the wrong result.

You most likely want something like:

clock format [clock seconds] -format "%x %X %Z" \
-timezone :America/New_York -locale en_US

You'll notice that -locale deals with punctuation differences (and
details like month-first vs. day-of-month-first), while -timezone
deals specifically with time zone.

-locale and -timezone need Tcl 8.5 or later. If you're stuck
on 8.4, you can either play games with $env(TZ) or get the
'newclock' extension.

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73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin