ddate

 

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 DDATE(1)             Emperor Norton Utilities            DDATE(1)
 
 
 
NAME
        ddate - converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates
 
SYNOPSIS
        ddate [+format] [date]
 
DESCRIPTION
        ddate prints the date in Discordian date format.
 
        If  called  with  no arguments, ddate will get the current
        system date, convert this to the  Discordian  date  format
        and  print  this  on the standard output. Alternatively, a
        Gregorian date may be specified on the  command  line,  in
        the form of a numerical day, month and year.
 
        If  a format string is specified, the Discordian date will
        be printed in a format specified by the string. This mech­
        anism  works  similarly  to the format string mechanism of
        date(1), only almost completely  differently.  The  fields
        are:
 
        %A     Full name of the day of the week (i.e., Sweetmorn)
 
        %a     Abbreviated name of the day of the week (i.e., SM)
 
        %B     Full name of the season (i.e., Chaos)
 
        %b     Abbreviated name of the season (i.e., Chs)
 
        %d     Ordinal number of day in season (i.e., 23)
 
        %e     Cardinal number of day in season (i.e., 23rd)
 
        %H     Name of current Holyday, if any
 
        %N     Magic  code  to  prevent  rest of format from being
               printed unless today is a Holyday.
 
        %n     Newline
 
        %t     Tab
 
        %X     Number of days remaining until X-Day. (Not valid if
               the SubGenius options are not compiled in.)
 
        %{
 
        %}     Used  to enclose the part of the string which is to
               be replaced with the words "St. Tib's Day"  if  the
               current day is St. Tib's Day.
 
        %.     Try it and see.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 EXAMPLES
        % ddate
        Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 42, 3161 YOLD
 
        % ddate +'Today is %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H'
        Today is Sweetmorn, the 42nd of Bureaucracy, 3161.
 
        % ddate +"It's %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H" 26 9 1995
        It's Prickle-Prickle, the 50th of Bureaucracy, 3161.
        Celebrate Bureflux
 
        % ddate +'Today's %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H' 29 2 1996
        Today's St. Tib's Day, 3162.
 
 
 BUGS
        ddate(1) will produce undefined behaviour if asked to pro­
        duce the date for St. Tib's day and its format string does
        not contain the St. Tib's Day delimiters %{ and %}.
 
 
 NOTE
        After  `X-Day'  passed without incident, the Church of the
        SubGenius declared that it had got the year upside down  -
        X-Day  is  actually in 8661 AD rather than 1998 AD.  Thus,
        the True X-Day is Cfn 40, 9827.
 
 
AUTHOR
        Original program by Druel the Chaotic aka  Jeremy  Johnson
        (mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
        Major  rewrite  by  Lee  H:.  O:.  Smith, KYTP, aka Andrew
        Bulhak (acb@dev.null.org)
        Five tons of flax.
 
 
 DISTRIBUTION POLICY
        Public domain. All rites reversed.
 
 
SEE ALSO
        date(1),
        http://www.subgenius.com/
        Malaclypse the Younger,  Principia  Discordia,  Or  How  I
        Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her
 
 
 
 
                        59 Bureaucracy 3161               DDATE(1)

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