Time difference

[Gorby]

Hi,
I am trying to make a script that returns the difference between a given date and time to current date and time.
Given date and time is in this format 1991-09-26 and 23:10:10
The only thing I found that seems to do this thing is clock scan but a can't get it to work.

If you have any idea how to do this please feel free to write back.

[egghead]

Hi,
I am trying to make a script that returns the difference between a given date and time to current date and time.
Given date and time is in this format 1991-09-26 and 23:10:10
The only thing I found that seems to do this thing is clock scan but a can't get it to work.

If you have any idea how to do this please feel free to write back.

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/clock.htm

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set date 1991-09-26 
set time 23:10:10 

puts "Converting $date $time" 

set clocksecs [clock scan "$date $time"]

puts "Clock seconds: $clocksecs"

set check [clock format $clocksecs -format "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"]

puts "Back conversion: $check"