The following is a confirmation from Kevin Kenny (author of the latest
clock code) about the state of 8.5 clock:
Jeff Hobbs wrote:
I haven't looked at Tcl 8.5 source, but has "clock ... -gmt" been
fixed so that it doesn't diddle with env(TZ) any more, which isn't
thread-safe. I remember that there's Tcl mutexes around the
env(TZ) diddling, but that isn't safe when an application embeds
Tcl and modifies env(TZ) as well but doesn't have access to the
mutex that Tcl's "clock" is using.
As of 8.5:
[clock] reads $env(TZ) but no longer needs to modify it. The
'-gmt' and '-timezone' flags are handled within the Tcl library.
We don't use the system 'strftime' either. We use 'localtime'
only as a last resort when we can't determine time zone any
other way. And that includes using 'localtime_r' where
appropriate. (Some systems have a thread-safe 'localtime' that
returns its structure in thread-local storage.)
So you should be safe.
--
73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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