NAME¶
pmdate - display an offset date
SYNOPSIS¶
pmdate [
offset ... ]
format
DESCRIPTION¶
pmdate displays the current date and/or time, with an optional offset.
An
offset is specified with a leading sign (``+'' or ``-''), followed by
an integer value, followed by one of the following ``scale'' specifiers;
- S
- seconds
- M
- minutes
- H
- hours
- d
- days
- m
- months
- y
- years
The output
format follows the same rules as for
date(1) and
strftime(3).
For example, the following will display the date a week ago as DDMMYYYY;
pmdate -7d %d%m%Y
PCP ENVIRONMENT¶
Environment variables with the prefix
PCP_ are used to parameterize the
file and directory names used by PCP. On each installation, the file
/etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables. The
$PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configuration
file, as described in
pcp.conf(5).
SEE ALSO¶
date(1),
strftime(3),
pcp.conf(5) and
pcp.env(5).