A sci-fi TV show, later turned into a long movie sequel.
Mentioned here for some obscure reason. Maybe they used Tcl in the Enterprise...
...it turns out that Tcl's clock scan supports Star Trek's stardate notation:
% clock scan "stardate 20 . 20" -756604800
I've no idea who added this or why. I cannot see it in the documentation either. Strikes me as needless code bloat. Does *anyone* use this?
RS Also:
43258 % clock format [clock sec] -format %Q Stardate 57824.5
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The source for "strftime.c" reveals that the undocumented %Q format specifier is done as a special case:
/* ... from strftime.c ... */
if (format[0] == '%' && format[1] == 'Q') {
/* Format as a stardate */
sprintf(s, "Stardate %2d%03d.%01d",
(((t->tm_year + TM_YEAR_BASE) + 377) - 2323),
(((t->tm_yday + 1) * 1000) /
(365 + IsLeapYear((t->tm_year + TM_YEAR_BASE)))),
(((t->tm_hour * 60) + t->tm_min)/144));
/* ... */
(bin) 50 % clock format [clock sec] -format "%Q blah"
Stardate 57547.3
(bin) 51 % clock format [clock sec] -format " %Q blah"
Q blahAnyone know who/when/why introduced this curious feature?
Just before the Tcl/2k conference in Austin - ask Jeff Hobbs and/or Kevin Kenny...