date comparison, 2038 issue

[ken2834]

I am doing a comparison of dates in an if statement...
matdate is a date in the format of "July 15, 2010".

set matdate1 [clock scan $matdate]
if {[clock seconds] < $matdate1} {
#run this code...
}

The first problem I encountered is I have some dates that exceed 2038. I get an "unable to convert" error for these. I was looking for a simple way to get today's date and test if matdate is greater than todays date. Any suggestions on alternatives? Thanks.

 

[prex1]

Not all platforms can represent the years 38-70, so an error may result if these years are used.

So what about

if {[string range $matdate end-4 end]<2038 && [clock seconds]<[clock scan $matdate]} {
  ...
}

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