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NAME
dateround - Round DATE/TIME to the next occurrence of RNDSPEC.
SYNOPSIS
dateround [OPTION]... [DATE/TIME] RNDSPEC...
DESCRIPTION
Round DATE/TIME to the next occurrence of RNDSPEC.
If DATE/TIME is omitted a stream of date/times is read from stdin.
DATE/TIME can also be one of the following specials
- `now' interpreted as the current (UTC) time stamp
- `time' the time part of the current (UTC) time stamp
- `today' the current date (according to UTC)
- `tomo[rrow]' tomorrow's date (according to UTC)
- `y[ester]day' yesterday's date (according to UTC)
1. RNDSPECs can be month names (Jan, Feb, ...), weekday names (Sun, Mon, ...),
numerals suffixed with y, q, mo, d, bd, h, m, or s, possibly prefixed with
a dash (`-`) to indicate the rounding direction is downwards.
2. Suffixed RNDSPECs may additionally be prefixed with a slash (`/`) to
indicate that rounding to a multiple of RNDSPEC is desired.
Co-class rounding.
In the first case, rounding affects the named element in the specified date or date/time and more
significant elements by setting this element to the specified value and adjusting the more significant
elements such that the result is greater (younger) or equal to the input (or strictly greater when
-n|--next is given) for positive values, and less (older) or equal (unless -n|--next is given) for named
elements that are prefixed with dash (`-`). In either case, less significant elements, e.g. subdivisions
of the named element and their subdivisions are left unchanged.
That is dateround 2019-01-28T12:04:00 +6
will yield 2019-02-06T12:04:00
Similarly dateround -n 2019-01-28T12:04:00 -- -Oct
will yield 2018-10-28T12:04:00
In the second case, rounding is more like rounding decimal fractions to negative infinity. The time axis
is partitioned by multiples of the named element, and the oldest date or datetime is returned that is
greater (younger) (or equal if -n|--next is omitted) than the specified date or date/time, when rounding
down (`-` prefix) the oldest date or datetime is returned that is less (older) than the specified date or
datetime.
That is dateround 2019-01-28T12:04:00 /1y
will yield 2020-01-01T00:00:00
Similarly dateround 2019-01-28T12:04:00 /-30m
will yield 2019-01-28T12:00:00
The superdivision of years are millennia, i.e. there's 1000 years, 500 biennia, 100 decades, etc. in a
millennium.
Multiple RNDSPECs are evaluated left to right.
Note that rounding isn't commutative, e.g. dateround 2012-03-01 Sat Sep -> 2012-09-03 vs.
dateround 2012-03-01 Sep Sat -> 2012-09-01
Note that non-numeric strings prefixed with a `-' conflict with the command line options and a separating
`--' has to be used.
Recognized OPTIONs:
-h, --help
Print help and exit
-V, --version
Print version and exit
-q, --quiet
Suppress message about date/time and duration parser errors and fix-ups. The default is to print
a warning or the fixed up value and return error code 2.
-f, --format=STRING
Output format. This can either be a specifier string (similar to strftime()'s FMT) or the name of
a calendar.
-i, --input-format=STRING...
Input format, can be used multiple times. Each date/time will be passed to the input format
parsers in the order they are given, if a date/time can be read successfully with a given input
format specifier string, that value will be used.
-b, --base=DT
For underspecified input use DT as a fallback to fill in missing fields. Also used for ambiguous
format specifiers to position their range on the absolute time line. Must be a date/time in
ISO8601 format. If omitted defaults to the current date/time.
-e, --backslash-escapes
Enable interpretation of backslash escapes in the output and input format specifier strings.
-S, --sed-mode
Copy parts from the input before and after a matching date/time. Note that all occurrences of
date/times within a line will be processed.
-E, --empty-mode
Empty lines that cannot be parsed.
--locale=LOCALE
Format results according to LOCALE, this would only affect month and weekday names.
--from-locale=LOCALE
Interpret dates on stdin or the command line as coming from the locale LOCALE, this would only
affect month and weekday names as input formats have to be specified explicitly.
--from-zone=ZONE
Interpret dates on stdin or the command line as coming from the time zone ZONE.
-z, --zone=ZONE
Convert dates printed on stdout to time zone ZONE, default: UTC.
-n, --next
Always round to a different date or time.
FORMAT SPECS
Format specs in dateutils are similar to posix' strftime().
However, due to a broader range of supported calendars dateutils must employ different rules.
Date specs:
%a The abbreviated weekday name
%A The full weekday name
%_a The weekday name shortened to a single character (MTWRFAS)
%b The abbreviated month name
%B The full month name
%_b The month name shortened to a single character (FGHJKMNQUVXZ)
%c The count of the weekday within the month (range 00 to 05)
%C The count of the weekday within the year (range 00 to 53)
%d The day of the month, 2 digits (range 00 to 31)
%D The day of the year, 3 digits (range 000 to 366)
%F Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d (ymd's canonical format)
%g ISO week date year without the century (range 00 to 99)
%G ISO week date year including the century
%j Equivalent to %D
%m The month in the current calendar (range 00 to 12)
%Q The quarter of the year (range Q1 to Q4)
%q The number of the quarter (range 01 to 04)
%s The number of seconds since the Epoch.
%u The weekday as number (range 01 to 07, Sunday being 07)
%U The week count, day of week is Sun (range 00 to 53)
%V The ISO week count, day of week is Mon (range 01 to 53)
%w The weekday as number (range 00 to 06, Sunday being 00)
%W The week count, day of week is Mon (range 00 to 53)
%y The year without a century (range 00 to 99)
%Y The year including the century
%_y The year shortened to a single digit
%Z The zone offset in hours and minutes (HH:MM) with
a preceding sign (+ for offsets east of UTC, - for offsets
west of UTC)
%Od The day as roman numerals
%Om The month as roman numerals
%Oy The two digit year as roman numerals
%OY The year including the century as roman numerals
%rs In time systems whose Epoch is different from the unix Epoch, this
selects the number of seconds since then.
%rY In calendars with years that don't coincide with the Gregorian
years, this selects the calendar's year.
%dth The day of the month as an ordinal number, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.
%mth The month of the year as an ordinal number, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.
%db The business day of the month (since last month's ultimo)
%dB Number of business days until this month's ultimo
Time specs:
%H The hour of the day using a 24h clock, 2 digits (range 00 to 23)
%I The hour of the day using a 12h clock, 2 digits (range 01 to 12)
%M The minute (range 00 to 59)
%N The nanoseconds (range 000000000 to 999999999)
%p The string AM or PM, noon is PM and midnight is AM.
%P Like %p but in lowercase
%S The (range 00 to 60, 60 is for leap seconds)
%T Equivalent to %H:%M:%S
General specs:
%n A newline character
%t A tab character
%% A literal % character
Modifiers:
%O Modifier to turn decimal numbers into Roman numerals
%r Modifier to turn units into real units
%0 Modifier to turn on zero prefixes
%SPC Modifier to turn on space prefixes
%- Modifier to turn off prefixes altogether
th Suffix, read and print ordinal numbers
b Suffix, treat days as business days
By design dates before 1601-01-01 are not supported.
For conformity here is a list of calendar designators and their corresponding format string:
ymd %Y-%m-%d
ymcw %Y-%m-%c-%w
ywd %rY-W%V-%u
bizda %Y-%m-%db
lilian n/a
ldn n/a
julian n/a
jdn n/a
matlab n/a
mdn n/a
These designators can be used as output format string, moreover, @code{lilian}/@code{ldn} and
@code{julian}/@code{jdn} can also be used as input format string.
SPECIFYING DURATIONS
Some tools ("dateadd", "dateseq") need durations as their input. Durations are generally incompatible
with input formats as specified by "-i|--input-format" and (at the moment) the input syntax is fixed.
The general format is "+-Nunit" where "+" or "-" is the sign, "N" a number, and "unit" the unit as
discussed below.
Units:
s seconds
m minutes
h hours
rs real-life seconds, as in including leap transitions
d days
b business days
mo months
y years
For historical reasons, we used to accept "m" in the context of date-only input as a qualifier for
months. As of 0.4.4, this is no longer the case.
EXAMPLES
$ dateround 2012-03-01 2
2012-03-02
$
$ dateround -n 2012-03-01 1
2012-04-01
$
$ dateround 17:05:00 5m
17:05:00
$ dateround 17:04:00 /5m
17:05:00
$
$ dateround -n 17:04:00 4m
18:04:00
$ dateround -n 17:04:00 /1m
17:05:00
$
AUTHOR
Written by Sebastian Freundt <freundt@fresse.org>
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to: https://github.com/hroptatyr/dateutils/issues
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for dateround is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and dateround
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info (dateutils)dateround
should give you access to the complete manual.