Part of the clock command. See http://purl.org/tcl/home/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/clock.htm for the formal man page.
JMN 2007-11-14
On FreeBSD - you can configure the timezone to UTC by removing /etc/localtime. I don't know if this is actually a legitimate way to set it to UTC, but it was the only way I knew of until now, and it does seem to cause a problem with Tcl's clock scan.
% clock scan "2007-11-01" -format "%Y-%m-%d" time value too large/small to represent % clock scan "2007-11-01" -format "%Y-%m-%d" 1193875200
The call fails the first time only, and then works fine.
If you configure the timezone to UTC by instead making /etc/localtime a link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC the problem doesn't occur. I have a number of systems configured with no /etc/localtime - but I guess I'll change that now in light of this.
This issue also shows up in the FAQ on amsn-project.net
Is a missing /etc/localtime something that clock scan should be able to handle - or is it would it be considered an OS configuration issue?
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