NAME¶
ddate - convert 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 mechanism 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 behavior if asked to produce 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
AVAILABILITY¶
The ddate command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.