xenial (1) ddate.1.gz

Provided by: ddate_0.2.2-1_amd64 bug

NAME

       ddate - convert 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 mechanism 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.

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 behavior if asked to produce 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)
       Gregorian B.C.E. dates fixed by Chaplain Nyan the Wiser, aka Dan Dart (ntw@dandart.co.uk)
       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

AVAILABILITY

       The ddate command is available from https://github.com/bo0ts/ddate.