Parsing CLI output from "show clock"

[miriamc]

I have an EEM applet that runs the "show clock"  command, then tried to parse the output using the "action string range" statement.  I wanted to get the 2 digit hour and 2 digit minute into two seperate varaibles.  So I used something like: action xxx string range $_cli_result 0 1 action xxx set hour $_string_result action xxx string range $_cli_result 3 4 action xxx set minute $_string result This didn't work however, as there appear to be some non-printing/control characters at the front of the string that caued the "string range" indexing not to work properly.  In fact I couldn't get it to return the tens digit of the hour at all, I just kept getting what appeared on the screen as a blank character. Does anyone know what's going on with the "show clock" command output?

[Dan Frey]

@Georg Pauwen shows how to parse the fields from show clock in this post.

https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-management/time-refernce-for-event-pub-sec/td-p/5117454

[Ruben Cocheno]

@miriamc 

EEM aligns with TCL and the event_pub_time grabs this info from gettime() in linux.  IOS-XE cli massages gettime() to a user configurable timezone if required but his does not change the underlying linux OS function.   If you want the time to get reported by the specific timezone configured I believe you are on the right track by issuing "show clock" and the info can be parsed out by regexp rather than a string command.