using the clock

[BrollY]

well, so far i just learned how to return the current date and local time with the clock format thing, but i was wondering if there was a way to check the time in another part of the country, or atleast pretend to do it.

for example, my timezone is AST, which is the same as EST when DST isnt applied, n i want the bot to display the current CET time (which is 6 hours ahead of me without DST), how would i go about making the bot display the time 6 hours ahead, as if it was CET.

i dont think many will understand this from the first try at reading it, i just seriously suck with explanations

[ppslim]

The only way to go about this, it to do a bit of Math.

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set timehere [clock seconds]

set format [clock format [expr ((6 * 60) * 60) + $timehere]]

As you can see, you add 6 hours onto the time.

[user]

Read about 'clock format' in the manual... I suggest something like this:

set diff 6

then:

clock format [clock scan ${diff}hour] -format %T

or:

clock format [expr [clock seconds]+($diff*3600)] -format %T

There might be better ways, though... Take a look at this man page http://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/clock.htm


Edit: damn...when will i learn to reload to check if other people have answered before i post
As you can see, I did the same math as ppslim in my last example.

[BrollY]

thanks for the help

btw, i changed ppslims code to this

set timehere [clock seconds]
set format [clock format [expr ((6 * 60) * 60) + $timehere] -format "little letters here"]


that being wat i was looking for but works fine, thanks a bunch