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DDATE
!!!DDATE
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
EXAMPLES
BUGS
NOTE
AUTHOR
DISTRIBUTION POLICY
SEE ALSO
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!!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 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


%.


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 +
!!BUGS


__ddate(1)__ will produce undefined behaviour 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)
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''
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