dm_date - Man Page

This performs the same operation as the unix 'date' command, but using the Date::Manip module.

​   dm_date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]

This displays information about the current system time, or some other time. Options are:

​-h, --help

Print online help.

​-d STRING, --date=STRING

Display time described by STRING. STRING can be any string which can be parsed by Date::Manip.  Please refer to the Date::Manip::Date documentation for details.

​-f DATEFILE, --file=DATEFILE

This reads each line in DATEFILE, and extracts a date from it and prints out the information.

Blank lines and lines starting with a pound (#) are ignored. Lines not containing a valid date are also ignored.

​-r FILE, --reference=FILE

Displays the last modification time of FILE.

​-R, --rfc-2822

Displayc the date and time in RFC 2822 format.

Example: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:34:56 -0600

​-u, --utc, --universal

Converts the date to UT (GMT) and prints out the information.

Only one of -d, -f, or -r should be included. If more than one is included, the first one from the list (-d, -f, -r) is used and any other is ignored.

The format string starts with a plus (+) and contains any of the format directives described in Date::Manip::Date.

None known.

Please refer to the Date::Manip::Problems documentation for information on submitting bug reports or questions to the author.

Date::Manip::Date

This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Sullivan Beck (https://github.com/SBECK-github/)