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DDATE(1)		   Emperor Norton User Command			DDATE(1)

NAME
     ddate - convert 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, con-
     vert this to the Discordian date format and print this on the standard out-
     put. 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  for-
     mat  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     Cardinal number of day in season (i.e., 23)

     %e     Ordinal 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.)

     %Y     The year of our Lady Discord (i.e., 3182)

     %{

     %}     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.

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.

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 de-
     limiters %{ 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)
     Gregorian	B.C.E.	dates  fixed  by  Chaplain  Nyan the Wiser, aka Dan Dart
     (ntw@dandart.co.uk)
     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

AVAILABILITY
     The ddate command is available from https://github.com/bo0ts/ddate.

ddate				Bureaucracy 3161			DDATE(1)

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