On 18 Jan, David Mannan wrote:
> Greetings TCL World;
>
> I've been having a problem with variables set by the system "date" command
> whenever the day of the month/year is "008" or "009". This has popped up
> several
> times before, and is easy enough to patch around - but now it has moved to
> "018".
>
> Has anyone seen this before, and more importantly does anyone know a fix
> for
> it.
>
> What I'm using: HPUX 10.20
> VTcl version: 1.20
>
> What I'm doing:
>
> global ExpireDate;
> set ExpireDate [exec date +%j]
> set bob [expr $ExpireDate + 90]
> if {$bob >= 365} { set ExpireDate [expr $bob - 365 ]
> } else { set ExpireDate $bob }
>
BTW, take a look at the "clock" command (from Tcl 7.6 on) too. It'll
take away the need to do an exec date.
L
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