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DATECONV(1)			  User Commands 		     DATECONV(1)

NAME
     dateconv - Convert DATE/TIMEs between calendrical systems.

SYNOPSIS
     dateconv [OPTION]...  [DATE/TIME]...

DESCRIPTION
     Convert  DATE/TIMEs  between  calendrical systems.  If DATE/TIME is omitted
     date/times are read from stdin.

     DATE/TIME can also be one of the following specials
       - `now'		 interpreted as the current (UTC) time stamp
       - `time' 	 the time part of the current (UTC) time stamp
       - `today'	 the current date (according to UTC)
       - `tomo[rrow]'	 tomorrow's date (according to UTC)
       - `y[ester]day'	 yesterday's date (according to UTC)

     Recognized OPTIONs:

     -h, --help
	    Print help and exit

     -V, --version
	    Print version and exit

     -q, --quiet
	    Suppress message about date/time and duration parser errors and fix-
	    ups.  The default is to print a warning or the fixed  up  value  and
	    return error code 2.

     -f, --format=STRING
	    Output  format.   This  can either be a specifier string (similar to
	    strftime()'s FMT) or the name of a calendar.

     -i, --input-format=STRING...
	    Input format, can be used multiple times.  Each  date/time	will  be
	    passed to the input format parsers in the order they are given, if a
	    date/time  can be read successfully with a given input format speci-
	    fier string, that value will be used.

     -b, --base=DT
	    For underspecified input use DT as a fallback  to  fill  in  missing
	    fields.  Also used for ambiguous format specifiers to position their
	    range  on  the  absolute  time line.  Must be a date/time in ISO8601
	    format.  If omitted defaults to the current date/time.

     -e, --backslash-escapes
	    Enable interpretation of backslash escapes in the output  and  input
	    format specifier strings.

     -S, --sed-mode
	    Copy  parts  from  the  input before and after a matching date/time.
	    Note that all occurrences  of  date/times  within  a  line	will  be
	    processed.

     --locale=LOCALE
	    Format results according to LOCALE, this would only affect month and
	    weekday names.

     --from-locale=LOCALE
	    Interpret  dates on stdin or the command line as coming from the lo-
	    cale LOCALE, this would only affect month and weekday names as input
	    formats have to be specified explicitly.

     --from-zone=ZONE
	    Interpret dates on stdin or the command line as coming from the time
	    zone ZONE.

     -z, --zone=ZONE
	    Convert dates printed on stdout to time zone ZONE, default: UTC.

FORMAT SPECS
     Format specs in dateutils are similar to posix' strftime().

     However, due to a broader range of supported calendars dateutils  must  em-
     ploy different rules.

     Date specs:
       %a  The abbreviated weekday name
       %A  The full weekday name
       %_a The weekday name shortened to a single character (MTWRFAS)
       %b  The abbreviated month name
       %B  The full month name
       %_b The month name shortened to a single character (FGHJKMNQUVXZ)
       %c  The count of the weekday within the month (range 00 to 05)
       %C  The count of the weekday within the year (range 00 to 53)
       %d  The day of the month, 2 digits (range 00 to 31)
       %D  The day of the year, 3 digits (range 000 to 366)
       %F  Equivalent to %Y-%m-%d (ymd's canonical format)
       %g  ISO week date year without the century (range 00 to 99)
       %G  ISO week date year including the century
       %j  Equivalent to %D
       %m  The month in the current calendar (range 00 to 19)
       %Q  The quarter of the year (range Q1 to Q4)
       %q  The number of the quarter (range 01 to 04)
       %s  The number of seconds since the Epoch.
       %u  The weekday as number (range 01 to 07, Sunday being 07)
       %U  The week count,  day of week is Sun (range 00 to 53)
       %V  The ISO week count,	day of week is Mon (range 01 to 53)
       %w  The weekday as number (range 00 to 06, Sunday being 00)
       %W  The week count,  day of week is Mon (range 00 to 53)
       %y  The year without a century (range 00 to 99)
       %Y  The year including the century
       %_y The year shortened to a single digit
       %Z  The zone offset in hours and minutes (HH:MM) with
	   a preceding sign (+ for offsets east of UTC, - for offsets
	   west of UTC)

       %Od The day as roman numerals
       %Om The month as roman numerals
       %Oy The two digit year as roman numerals
       %OY The year including the century as roman numerals

       %rs In time systems whose Epoch is different from the unix Epoch, this
	   selects the number of seconds since then.
       %rY In calendars with years that don't coincide with the Gregorian
	   years, this selects the calendar's year.

       %dth  The day of the month as an ordinal number, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.
       %mth  The month of the year as an ordinal number, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.

       %db The business day of the month (since last month's ultimo)
       %dB Number of business days until this month's ultimo

     Time specs:
       %H  The hour of the day using a 24h clock, 2 digits (range 00 to 23)
       %I  The hour of the day using a 12h clock, 2 digits (range 01 to 12)
       %M  The minute (range 00 to 59)
       %N  The nanoseconds (range 000000000 to 999999999)
       %p  The string AM or PM, noon is PM and midnight is AM.
       %P  Like %p but in lowercase
       %S  The	(range 00 to 60, 60 is for leap seconds)
       %T  Equivalent to %H:%M:%S

     General specs:
       %n  A newline character
       %t  A tab character
       %%  A literal % character

     Modifiers:
       %O  Modifier to turn decimal numbers into Roman numerals
       %r  Modifier to turn units into real units
       th  Suffix, read and print ordinal numbers
       b   Suffix, treat days as business days

     By design dates before 1601-01-01 are not supported.

     For conformity here is a list of calendar designators and their correspond-
     ing format string:
       ymd     %Y-%m-%d
       ymcw    %Y-%m-%c-%w
       ywd     %rY-W%V-%u
       bizda   %Y-%m-%db
       lilian	  n/a
       ldn	  n/a
       julian	  n/a
       jdn	  n/a

     These designators can be used as output format string, moreover, @code{lil-
     ian}/@code{ldn} and @code{julian}/@code{jdn} can also be used as input for-
     mat string.

EXAMPLES
       $ dconv 2012-03-01
       2012-03-01
       $

       $ dconv -i "%d/%b/%y" 01/Mar/12
       2012-03-01
       $

       $ dconv -f "%d/%b/%y" 2012-03-01
       01/Mar/12
       $

       $ dconv -f "%d/%b/%y" -i "%OY %Om %Od" "MCMXCVIII IX XVII"
       17/Sep/98
       $

       $ dconv 12:03:01
       12:03:01
       $

       $ dconv -i "%I:%M:%S %p" "11:22:33 PM"
       23:22:33
       $

       $ dconv '2012-03-01 00:00:00'
       2012-03-01T00:00:00
       $

       $ dconv 2012-03-01T12:34:56
       2012-03-01T12:34:56
       $

       $ dconv --zone America/Chicago <<EOF
       2012-03-01T07:05:06
       2012-03-01T08:12:34
       2012-03-11T01:05:06
       2012-03-11T02:05:06
       2012-03-11T07:05:06
       2012-03-11T08:05:06
       2012-03-11T17:05:06
       EOF
       2012-03-01T01:05:06
       2012-03-01T02:12:34
       2012-03-10T19:05:06
       2012-03-10T20:05:06
       2012-03-11T01:05:06
       2012-03-11T03:05:06
       2012-03-11T12:05:06
       $

       $ dconv --from-zone America/Chicago <<EOF
       2012-03-01T01:05:06
       2012-03-01T02:12:34
       2012-03-10T19:05:06
       2012-03-10T20:05:06
       2012-03-11T01:05:06
       2012-03-11T03:05:06
       2012-03-11T12:05:06
       EOF
       2012-03-01T07:05:06
       2012-03-01T08:12:34
       2012-03-11T01:05:06
       2012-03-11T02:05:06
       2012-03-11T07:05:06
       2012-03-11T08:05:06
       2012-03-11T17:05:06
       $

       $ dconv --from-zone America/Chicago -z Europe/Berlin '2012-03-01 12:00' -i '%F %H:%M' -f '%F %T'
       2012-03-01 19:00:00
       $

AUTHOR
     Written by Sebastian Freundt <freundt@fresse.org>

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to: https://github.com/hroptatyr/dateutils/issues

SEE ALSO
     The  full documentation for dateconv is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
     the info and dateconv programs are properly installed  at	your  site,  the
     command

	    info (dateutils)dateconv

     should give you access to the complete manual.

dateutils 0.4.1 		  December 2016 		     DATECONV(1)

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