ddate(1)

1DDATE(1)                   Emperor Norton Utilities                   DDATE(1)
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NAME

6       ddate - converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates
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SYNOPSIS

9       ddate [+format] [date]
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DESCRIPTION

12       ddate prints the date in Discordian date format.
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14       If  called  with  no arguments, ddate will get the current system date,
15       convert this to the Discordian date format and print this on the  stan‐
16       dard  output.  Alternatively,  a Gregorian date may be specified on the
17       command line, in the form of a numerical day, month and year.
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19       If a format string is specified, the Discordian date will be printed in
20       a format specified by the string. This mechanism works similarly to the
21       format string mechanism of date(1), only almost completely differently.
22       The fields are:
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24       %A     Full name of the day of the week (i.e., Sweetmorn)
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26       %a     Abbreviated name of the day of the week (i.e., SM)
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28       %B     Full name of the season (i.e., Chaos)
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30       %b     Abbreviated name of the season (i.e., Chs)
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32       %d     Ordinal number of day in season (i.e., 23)
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34       %e     Cardinal number of day in season (i.e., 23rd)
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36       %H     Name of current Holyday, if any
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38       %N     Magic  code  to prevent rest of format from being printed unless
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41       %n     Newline
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45       %X     Number of days remaining until X-Day. (Not valid if  the  SubGe‐
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50       %}     Used  to  enclose the part of the string which is to be replaced
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54       %.     Try it and see.
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EXAMPLES

57       % ddate
58       Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 42, 3161 YOLD
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60       % ddate +'Today is %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H'
61       Today is Sweetmorn, the 42nd of Bureaucracy, 3161.
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63       % ddate +"It's %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H" 26 9 1995
64       It's Prickle-Prickle, the 50th of Bureaucracy, 3161.
65       Celebrate Bureflux
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67       % ddate +"Today's %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H" 29 2 1996
68       Today's St. Tib's Day, 3162.
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BUGS

72       ddate(1)  will produce undefined behaviour if asked to produce the date
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74       Day delimiters %{ and %}.
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NOTE

78       After  `X-Day'  passed  without  incident,  the Church of the SubGenius
79       declared that it had got the year upside down - X-Day  is  actually  in
80       8661 AD rather than 1998 AD.  Thus, the True X-Day is Cfn 40, 9827.
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AUTHOR

84       Original   program   by   Druel   the   Chaotic   aka   Jeremy  Johnson
85       (mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
86       Major  rewrite  by  Lee  H:.  O:.  Smith,  KYTP,  aka   Andrew   Bulhak
87       (acb@dev.null.org)
88       Five tons of flax.
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DISTRIBUTION POLICY

92       Public domain. All rites reversed.
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