Re: [Bug-apl] ⎕TS inconsistent

⎕TS

2014 11 11 8 40 23 66

⎕TZ

¯6

)load Utils

SAVED 2014-11-11 00:27:03 (GMT-5)

⎕TS

2014 11 11 9 40 41 974

⎕TZ

¯5

I didn't know about ⎕TZ. I'm not sure why it would be assignable, but if it is, it certainly shouldn't be in a saved workspace! If I give my workspace to someone in a different time zone, it would always be wrong.

I just checked IBM APL2. They way it works makes sense. It works as follows:

1. ⎕TZ defaults as is correct for the local machine.

2. ⎕TZ is assignable.

3. Changing the value of ⎕TZ survives and is unchanged by )CLEAR and )LOAD.

4. )SAVE and )LOAD have no affect on ⎕TZ

5. If APL is exited and restarted, ⎕TZ returns to the local system appropriate value.

If GNU APL did this. It would be perfect.

Thanks.

Blake

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Juergen Sauermann <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Blake,

could you please check if ⎕TZ has changed when this happens?
I had a look at the time related code but could not find anything wrong.

/// Jürgen

On 11/11/2014 06:45 AM, Blake McBride wrote:

A more complete demo:

⎕TS

2014 11 10 23 43 5 559

)load Utils

SAVED 2014-11-11 00:27:03 (GMT-5)

⎕TS

2014 11 11 0 43 14 503

)off

Goodbye.

address@hidden ~ $ date

Mon Nov 10 23:43:20 CST 2014

The date from bash is correct.

Thanks.

Blake

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Blake McBride <address@hidden> wrote:

The following is all within one minute:

⎕TS

2014 11 10 23 38 53 372

)Load Utils

SAVED 2014-11-11 00:27:03 (GMT-5)

⎕TS

2014 11 11 0 39 6 39

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Blake McBride <address@hidden> wrote:

⎕TS

2014 11 10 23 28 47 416

.

.

.

⎕TS

2014 11 11 0 32 15 228

)OFF

Goodbye.

address@hidden ~ $ date

Mon Nov 10 23:35:43 CST 2014

All of the above lines were typed within a few minutes of each other, i.e. the same hour.

⎕TS is sometime an hour off. Not sure what makes it mess up yet.

Thanks.

Blake

From:	Blake McBride
Subject:	Re: [Bug-apl] ⎕TS inconsistent
Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:53:10 -0600