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.\" All Rites Reversed. This file is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.
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.\" Kallisti.
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.TH DDATE 1 "Bureaucracy 3161" "ddate" "Emperor Norton User Command"
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.SH NAME
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ddate \- convert Gregorian dates to Discordian dates
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B ddate
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.RI [ \fB+\fPformat]
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.RI [ date ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B ddate
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prints the date in Discordian date format.
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.PP
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If called with no arguments,
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.B ddate
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will get the current system date, convert this to the Discordian
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date format and print this on the standard output. Alternatively, a
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Gregorian date may be specified on the command line, in the form of a numerical
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day, month and year.
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.PP
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If a format string is specified, the Discordian date will be printed in
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a format specified by the string. This mechanism works similarly to the
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format string mechanism of
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.B date(1),
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only almost completely differently. The fields are:
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.IP %A
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Full name of the day of the week (i.e., Sweetmorn)
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.IP %a
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Abbreviated name of the day of the week (i.e., SM)
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.IP %B
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Full name of the season (i.e., Chaos)
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.IP %b
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Abbreviated name of the season (i.e., Chs)
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.IP %d
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Cardinal number of day in season (i.e., 23)
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.IP %e
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Ordinal number of day in season (i.e., 23rd)
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.IP %H
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Name of current Holyday, if any
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.IP %N
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Magic code to prevent rest of format from being printed unless today is
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a Holyday.
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.IP %n
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Newline
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.IP %t
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Tab
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.IP %X
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Number of days remaining until X-Day. (Not valid if the SubGenius options
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are not compiled in.)
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.IP %{
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.IP %}
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Used to enclose the part of the string which is to be replaced with the
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words "St. Tib's Day" if the current day is St. Tib's Day.
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.IP %\.
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Try it and see.
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.bp
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.SH EXAMPLES
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.nf
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% ddate
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.br
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Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 42, 3161 YOLD
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.PP
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% ddate +'Today is %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H'
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.br
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Today is Sweetmorn, the 42nd of Bureaucracy, 3161.
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.PP
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% ddate +"It's %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H" 26 9 1995
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.br
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It's Prickle-Prickle, the 50th of Bureaucracy, 3161.
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.br
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Celebrate Bureflux
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.PP
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% ddate +"Today's %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H" 29 2 1996
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.br
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Today's St. Tib's Day, 3162.
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.br
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.SH BUGS
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.B ddate(1)
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will produce undefined behavior if asked to produce the date for St. Tib's
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day and its format string does not contain the St. Tib's Day delimiters
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%{ and %}.
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.SH NOTE
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After `X-Day' passed without incident, the Church of the SubGenius
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declared that it had got the year upside down - X-Day is actually in 8661 AD
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rather than 1998 AD. Thus, the True X-Day is Cfn 40, 9827.
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.SH AUTHOR
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.nh
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Original program by Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson (mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
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.br
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Major rewrite by Lee H:. O:. Smith, KYTP, aka Andrew Bulhak (acb@dev.null.org)
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.br
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Gregorian B.C.E. dates fixed by Chaplain Nyan the Wiser, aka Dan Dart (ntw@dandart.co.uk)
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.br
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Five tons of flax.
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.SH DISTRIBUTION POLICY
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Public domain. All rites reversed.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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date(1),
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.br
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http://www.subgenius.com/
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.br
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Malaclypse the Younger,
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.I "Principia Discordia, Or How I Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her"
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.SH AVAILABILITY
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The ddate command is available from https://github.com/bo0ts/ddate.
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