Amazing nearby, or ddate command in Linux / Unix
One has only to accidentally press the key twice, and you find yourself in a new amazing world. So, today I entered " ddate " instead of " date " in the console and found a lot of interesting. It turned out ddate displays the current date on the "Discordian calendar."
“WTF?”, Someone will say, which will exactly repeat my reaction. The short answer is something like this: The Discordian calendar is used by Discordian fans. And Discordianism (Discordia) - according to Russian Wikipedia - “is a parody of a religion or a religion disguised as a parody. Unlike traditional religions, preaching harmony, discordianism deified chaos. The main deity of discordianism is Eris, the ancient Greek goddess of contention, who planted an apple of contention at the wedding feast at Peleus. The foundational book is Principia Discordia (1958 or 1959), written by Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (Kerry Thornley) and Malaklips Younger (Greg Hill). ”.
More information is available in the English version: by calendar and by religion itself . Generally entertaining - for example, the following: “in the Discordian calendar, 5 73-day seasons: Chaos, Disorder, Confusion, Bureaucracy and Consequences”.
Detailed information on the launch and the date format of the command itself, of course, in man ddate , from there I will give only examples of use:
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PS: I did not invent anything better (in terms of deployment) than “Linux for all”.
“WTF?”, Someone will say, which will exactly repeat my reaction. The short answer is something like this: The Discordian calendar is used by Discordian fans. And Discordianism (Discordia) - according to Russian Wikipedia - “is a parody of a religion or a religion disguised as a parody. Unlike traditional religions, preaching harmony, discordianism deified chaos. The main deity of discordianism is Eris, the ancient Greek goddess of contention, who planted an apple of contention at the wedding feast at Peleus. The foundational book is Principia Discordia (1958 or 1959), written by Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (Kerry Thornley) and Malaklips Younger (Greg Hill). ”.
More information is available in the English version: by calendar and by religion itself . Generally entertaining - for example, the following: “in the Discordian calendar, 5 73-day seasons: Chaos, Disorder, Confusion, Bureaucracy and Consequences”.
Detailed information on the launch and the date format of the command itself, of course, in man ddate , from there I will give only examples of use:
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% 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.PS: I did not invent anything better (in terms of deployment) than “Linux for all”.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/99696/
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