ddate
convert Gregorian dates to Discordian dates
see also :
date
Synopsis
ddate
[+format] [date]
add an example, a script, a trick and tips
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.
source
pkgname=ddate
pkgver=0.2
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="ddate extracted from
util-linux"
arch=('x86_64 i686')
arch=('x86_64 i686')
url="https://github.com/bo0ts/ddate"
license=(GPL)
depends=()
source=($pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/bo0ts/ddate/tarball/v0.2)
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.
availability
The ddate command is part of the util-linux package and is
available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
distribution policy
Public domain. All rites reversed.
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.
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 %}.
see also
date ,
http://www.subgenius.com/
Malaclypse the Younger, Principia Discordia, Or How I
Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her
author
Original
program by Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson
(mpython[:at:]gnu.ai.mit[:dot:]edu)
Major rewrite by Lee H:. O:. Smith, KYTP, aka Andrew Bulhak
(acb[:at:]dev.null[:dot:]org)
Five tons of flax.