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1 perry 1 DDATE
2 !!!DDATE
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 EXAMPLES
7 BUGS
8 NOTE
9 AUTHOR
10 DISTRIBUTION POLICY
11 SEE ALSO
12 ----
13 !!NAME
14
15
16 ddate - converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates
17 !!SYNOPSIS
18
19
20 __ddate [[+format] [[date]__
21 !!DESCRIPTION
22
23
24 __ddate__ prints the date in Discordian date
25 format.
26
27
28 If called with no arguments, __ddate__ will get the
29 current system date, convert this to the Discordian date
30 format and print this on the standard output. Alternatively,
31 a Gregorian date may be specified on the command line, in
32 the form of a numerical day, month and year.
33
34
35 If a format string is specified, the Discordian date will be
36 printed in a format specified by the string. This mechanism
37 works similarly to the format string mechanism of
38 __date(1),__ only almost completely differently. The
39 fields are:
40
41
42 %A
43
44
45 Full name of the day of the week (i.e.,
46 Sweetmorn)
47
48
49 %a
50
51
52 Abbreviated name of the day of the week (i.e.,
53 SM)
54
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56 %B
57
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59 Full name of the season (i.e., Chaos)
60
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62 %b
63
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65 Abbreviated name of the season (i.e., Chs)
66
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68 %d
69
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71 Ordinal number of day in season (i.e., 23)
72
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74 %e
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77 Cardinal number of day in season (i.e., 23rd)
78
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80 %H
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83 Name of current Holyday, if any
84
85
86 %N
87
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89 Magic code to prevent rest of format from being printed
90 unless today is a Holyday.
91
92
93 %n
94
95
96 Newline
97
98
99 %t
100
101
102 Tab
103
104
105 %X
106
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108 Number of days remaining until X-Day. (Not valid if the
2 perry 109 !SubGenius options are not compiled in.)
1 perry 110
111
112 %{
113
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115 %}
116
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118 Used to enclose the part of the string which is to be
119 replaced with the words
120
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122 %.
123
124
125 Try it and see.
126 !!EXAMPLES
127
128
129 % ddate
130 Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 42, 3161 YOLD
131 % ddate +'Today is %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H'
132 Today is Sweetmorn, the 42nd of Bureaucracy, 3161.
133 % ddate +
134 !!BUGS
135
136
137 __ddate(1)__ will produce undefined behaviour if asked to
138 produce the date for St. Tib's day and its format string
139 does not contain the St. Tib's Day delimiters %{ and
140 %}.
141 !!NOTE
142
143
144 After `X-Day' passed without incident, the Church of the
2 perry 145 !SubGenius declared that it had got the year upside down -
1 perry 146 X-Day is actually in 8661 AD rather than 1998 AD. Thus, the
147 True X-Day is Cfn 40, 9827.
148 !!AUTHOR
149
150
151 Original program by Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson
152 (mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
153 Major rewrite by Lee H:. O:. Smith, KYTP, aka Andrew Bulhak
154 (acb@dev.null.org)
155 Five tons of flax.
156 !!DISTRIBUTION POLICY
157
158
159 Public domain. All rites reversed.
160 !!SEE ALSO
161
162
163 date(1),
164 http://www.subgenius.com/
165 Malaclypse the Younger, ''Principia Discordia, Or How I
166 Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found
167 Her''
168 ----
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