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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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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