NAME

       jdate - manual page for jdate

SYNOPSIS

       jdate [arRuhV]... [+OUTPUT_FORMAT][d INPUT_FORMAT;DATE_STRING]

DESCRIPTION

       Display the current date and time in the given FORMAT.

       -d, --date=FORMAT;STRING
              display time described by STRING, not `now'

       -a, --access=FILE
              display the last access time of FILE.

       -r, --reference=FILE
              display the last modification time of FILE.

       -j, --jalali=%Y/%m/%d
              converts a gregorian date to jalali.

       -g, --gregorian=%Y/%m/%d
              converts a jalali date to gregorian.

       -R, --rfc-2822
              output  date  and  time  in  RFC  2822 format.  Example: Jom, 06 Khor 1390 13:44:56
              -0430.

       -u, --utc, --universal
              print Coordinated Universal Time.

       -h, --help
              display this help and exit.

       -V, --version
              output version information and exit.

       FORMAT controls the output.
              Interpreted sequences are:

       %%     a literal %

       %a     abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)

       %A     full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)

       %b     abbreviated month name (e.g., Khor)

       %B     full month name (e.g., Khordad)

       %c     date and time (e.g., Jome Kho  6 17:18:25 1390)

       %C     century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 13)

       %d     day of month (e.g., 01)

       %D     date; same as %Y/%m/%d

       %e     day of month, space padded; same as %_d

       %E     date and time in Farsi. (utf8)

       %F     full date; same as %Y-%m-%d

       %h     abbreviated Farsi weekday name in English transliteration (e.g. Jom)

       %q     full Farsi weekday name in English transliteration (e.g. Jomeh)

       %g     abbreviated Farsi weekday name. (utf8)

       %G     full Farsi weekday name. (utf8)

       %v     abbreviated Farsi month name. (utf8)

       %V     full Farsi month name. (utf8)

       %H     hour (00..23)

       %I     hour (01..12)

       %j     day of year (001..366)

       %k     hour (0..23)

       %l     hour (1..12)

       %m     month (01..12)

       %M     minute (00..59)

       %n     a newline

       %O     AM or PM notation for time in Farsi. (utf8)

       %p     either AM or PM; blank if not known

       %P     like %p, but lower case

       %r     12-hour clock time (e.g., 17:24:04 PM)

       %R     24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M

       %s     seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC

       %S     second (00..59)

       %t     a tab

       %T     time; same as %H:%M:%S

       %u     day of week (1..7); 1 is Saturday

       %U     week number of year, with Saturday as first day of week (00..53)

       %w     day of week (0..6); 0 is Saturday

       %W     date representation in Farsi. (utf8)

       %x     date representation (e.g., 06/03/90)

       %X     time representation in Farsi. (utf8)

       %y     last two digits of year (00..99)

       %Y     year

       %z     +hhmm numeric time zone (e.g., +0330)

       %Z     alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., IRST)

EXAMPLES

       jdate -uR
              formats current UTC date and time in RFC2822 format.

       jdate '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
              formats current local date and time in the above format. e.g. 1390-03-06 21:12:17

       jdate --access=foo.bar
              displays last access time for file foo.bar

       jdate '+%s' --date='%Y/%m/%d-%H:%M:%S;1390/03/06-21:14:17'
              displays seconds since epoch (UTC) for local date specified by date string.

AUTHOR

       Written by Ashkan Ghassemi. <ghassemi@ftml.net>

REPORTING BUGS

       Report jdate bugs to <ghassemi@ftml.net>

       libjalali home page: <http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/jcal/>

SEE ALSO

       jcal(1), jctime(3), jstrftime(3), jstrptime(3)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2011 Ashkan Ghassemi.

       License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later  <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.   This  is
       free  software:  you  are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the
       extent permitted by law.