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 unles 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. Tibb'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.


AUTHOR
 Original program by Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson
 (mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
 Major rewrite by Le H:. O:. Smith, KYTP, aka Andrew
 Bulhak (acb@zikzak.net)
 Five tons of flax.

NOTE
	I changed the default output to include an X-Day countdown and
	included a little random blurb (the +%. option).  I also inserted
	more entries from the SubG lexicon.  Compiled for SubG-Inside compliance.
	New default output:
	% ddate
	Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 20th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3162
	677 days til X-Day      Keep the Lasagna flying!

	--Cary



































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