Ddate

$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.

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DDATE(1)            Emperor Norton Utilities            DDATE(1)

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

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--- I added a little discordian hack to the wiki today cause it was the 23rd of 5 .;) If you use $ddate in this wiki, it will be replaced by the current discordian date as calculated by the ddate command described above. (Our server time should be CentralEuropeanTime zone). --mutante

Example: $ddate