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diff --git a/source/a/util-linux/ddate.1 b/source/a/util-linux/ddate.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ec4ee81d --- /dev/null +++ b/source/a/util-linux/ddate.1 @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +.\" All Rites Reversed. This file is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN. +.\" Kallisti. +.TH DDATE 1 "Bureaucracy 3161" "ddate" "Emperor Norton User Command" +.SH NAME +ddate \- convert Gregorian dates to Discordian dates +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B ddate +.RI [ \fB+\fPformat] +.RI [ date ] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B ddate +prints the date in Discordian date format. +.PP +If called with no arguments, +.B 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. +.PP +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 +.B date(1), +only almost completely differently. The fields are: +.IP %A +Full name of the day of the week (i.e., Sweetmorn) +.IP %a +Abbreviated name of the day of the week (i.e., SM) +.IP %B +Full name of the season (i.e., Chaos) +.IP %b +Abbreviated name of the season (i.e., Chs) +.IP %d +Cardinal number of day in season (i.e., 23) +.IP %e +Ordinal number of day in season (i.e., 23rd) +.IP %H +Name of current Holyday, if any +.IP %N +Magic code to prevent rest of format from being printed unless today is +a Holyday. +.IP %n +Newline +.IP %t +Tab +.IP %X +Number of days remaining until X-Day. (Not valid if the SubGenius options +are not compiled in.) +.IP %{ +.IP %} +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. +.IP %\. +Try it and see. +.bp +.SH EXAMPLES +.nf +% ddate +.br +Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 42, 3161 YOLD +.PP +% ddate +'Today is %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H' +.br +Today is Sweetmorn, the 42nd of Bureaucracy, 3161. +.PP +% ddate +"It's %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H" 26 9 1995 +.br +It's Prickle-Prickle, the 50th of Bureaucracy, 3161. +.br +Celebrate Bureflux +.PP +% ddate +"Today's %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H" 29 2 1996 +.br +Today's St. Tib's Day, 3162. +.br + +.SH BUGS + +.B 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 %}. + +.SH 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. + +.SH AUTHOR +.nh +Original program by Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson (mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu) +.br +Major rewrite by Lee H:. O:. Smith, KYTP, aka Andrew Bulhak (acb@dev.null.org) +.br +Gregorian B.C.E. dates fixed by Chaplain Nyan the Wiser, aka Dan Dart (ntw@dandart.co.uk) +.br +Five tons of flax. + +.SH DISTRIBUTION POLICY + +Public domain. All rites reversed. + +.SH SEE ALSO + +date(1), +.br +http://www.subgenius.com/ +.br +Malaclypse the Younger, +.I "Principia Discordia, Or How I Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her" + +.SH AVAILABILITY +The ddate command is available from https://github.com/bo0ts/ddate. |