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PROGRAM:
NAME
hodie - Print current date and time... in Latin
SYNOPSIS
hodie [ OPTION ]...
DESCRIPTION
hodie prints out the current date using classic Latin, and in addition also prints it out
and time using Roman numerals.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Print short help message with syntax
-v, --verbose
Print months and days (pridie, Kalends, Nones, Ides) full and not the respective
abbreviations (standard mode of operation)
Two occurrences of -v as well as the use of -vv or --extremely-verbose will
include the numerals where applicable fully declined, as in 'ante diem quintum
Kalends Septembres'.
-n, --numerals
Don't print anything in Latin - only the date and time as Roman numerals.
-x, --force-numerals
Print both the verbose latin and the date and time as Roman numerals.
-c, --classic, --auc
Print the year in the classic manner ab urbe condita instead of the more modern
anno domini .
-a, --ante-diem
Print the date expressing the number of days to the next main day with the ante
diem expression instead of ablative case.
-d, --date
Print out any date. This has a rather special syntax, with a keyword following the
-d flag choosing input format. See section on DATE INPUT below.
-r, --republican OFFSET
Print out the date dated ab urbe tua condita with the offset counted in years as
compared to the modern european kalendar (originating with the hypothetical birth
of christ). hodie -r -753 would be equivalent with hodie -c
--version
Print out the version number of this release and exit. No matter whether other
options appear on the command line or not.
DATE INPUT
Following the -d or the --date option flags, the first item must be one of the following:
verbose
In this case, the year, month and day are given by following the verbose keyword by
the flags -y, --year, -m, --month, -d, --day for year, month and date respectively
ymd After this flag, the date comes in the format YYYY-MM-DD , where the numbers may be
separated by any non-numeric character.
dmy With this flag, the date is given as DD-MM-YYYY
mdy With this flag, the date is given as MM-DD-YYYY Restrictions on the characters that
may replace the hyphen apply as above.
HISTORY
The story began on the 10. of August, 2000 (a.d. VI Id. Iul., MM). Having finished most of
my assignment for my two-month summer job at Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland, Nuremberg, I
was idling around on the Internet, and stumbled over the dotcomma-challenges
<http://www.dotcomma.org> , where especially the Roman numeral challenge started my mind.
Almost an hour hacking, and there it was, another hour, and the language support was
there. Before the night was over, I had written this man page and had the layout of a
decent Makefile drawn out mentally.
At the end of the next day, I was so far that I actually had the workings of RPM worked
out, constructed a .rpm-package and a .src.rpm-package, which was promptly released on my
home-page, announced on freshmeat and uploaded to metalab (apps/misc :-).
Response was quick and plentiful. By now, I have compilation reports from Linux, FreeBSD
and SCO Unixware 7; there are a few compability issues to put aside, but it works
surprisingly well.
RETURN VALUES
hodie returns zero. Always. If it doesn't, then something is really bad with the code.
For some really unreadable code, this means that hodie could be used as a strange
replacement for true
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