Manpage of JDATE

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# JDATE

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Khordad 6, 1390
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## NAME

jdate - manual page for jdate

## SYNOPSIS

jdate [arRuhV]... [+OUTPUT_FORMAT][d INPUT_FORMAT;DATE_STRING]

## DESCRIPTION

Display the current date and time in the given FORMAT.

-d, --date=FORMAT;STRING
  display time described by STRING, not `now'
-a, --access=FILE
  display the last access time of FILE.
-r, --reference=FILE
  display the last modification time of FILE.
-j, --jalali=%Y/%m/%d
  converts a gregorian date to jalali.
-g, --gregorian=%Y/%m/%d
  converts a jalali date to gregorian.
-R, --rfc-2822
  output date and time in RFC 2822 format. Example: Jom, 06 Khor 1390 13:44:56 -0430.
-u, --utc, --universal
  print Coordinated Universal Time.
-h, --help
  display this help and exit.
-V, --version
  output version information and exit.
FORMAT controls the output.
  Interpreted sequences are:
%%
  a literal %
%a
  abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)
%A
  full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)
%b
  abbreviated month name (e.g., Khor)
%B
  full month name (e.g., Khordad)
%c
  date and time (e.g., Jome Kho 6 17:18:25 1390)
%C
  century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 13)
%d
  day of month (e.g., 01)
%D
  date; same as %Y/%m/%d
%e
  day of month, space padded; same as %_d
%E
  date and time in Farsi. (utf8)
%F
  full date; same as %Y-%m-%d
%h
  abbreviated Farsi weekday name in English transliteration (e.g. Jom)
%q
  full Farsi weekday name in English transliteration (e.g. Jomeh)
%g
  abbreviated Farsi weekday name. (utf8)
%G
  full Farsi weekday name. (utf8)
%v
  abbreviated Farsi month name. (utf8)
%V
  full Farsi month name. (utf8)
%H
  hour (00..23)
%I
  hour (01..12)
%j
  day of year (001..366)
%k
  hour (0..23)
%l
  hour (1..12)
%m
  month (01..12)
%M
  minute (00..59)
%n
  a newline
%O
  AM or PM notation for time in Farsi. (utf8)
%p
  either AM or PM; blank if not known
%P
  like %p, but lower case
%r
  12-hour clock time (e.g., 17:24:04 PM)
%R
  24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M
%s
  seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
%S
  second (00..59)
%t
  a tab
%T
  time; same as %H:%M:%S
%u
  day of week (1..7); 1 is Saturday
%U
  week number of year, with Saturday as first day of week (00..53)
%w
  day of week (0..6); 0 is Saturday
%W
  date representation in Farsi. (utf8)
%x
  date representation (e.g., 06/03/90)
%X
  time representation in Farsi. (utf8)
%y
  last two digits of year (00..99)
%Y
  year
%z
  +hhmm numeric time zone (e.g., +0330)
%Z
  alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., IRST)

## EXAMPLES

jdate -uR
  formats current UTC date and time in RFC2822 format.
jdate '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
  formats current local date and time in the above format. e.g. 1390-03-06 21:12:17
jdate --access=foo.bar
  displays last access time for file foo.bar
jdate '+%s' --date='%Y/%m/%d-%H:%M:%S;1390/03/06-21:14:17'
  displays seconds since epoch (UTC) for local date specified by date string.

## AUTHOR

Written by Ashkan Ghassemi. <ghassemi@ftml.net>

## REPORTING BUGS

Report jdate bugs to <ghassemi@ftml.net>

libjalali home page: <http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/jcal/>

## SEE ALSO

jcal(1), jctime(3), jstrftime(3), jstrptime(3)

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2011 Ashkan Ghassemi.

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

## Index

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SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
EXAMPLES
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
SEE ALSO
COPYRIGHT

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