jdate - Man Page

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

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)

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.

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

Report jdate bugs to <ghassemi@ftml.net>

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

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

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.

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