DATEUTILS(1)

📦 version 0.4.10, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

💖 DATEUTILS(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the dateutils manual page (that's section 1 of the User Commands manual, iykyk) — sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about the most underrated little toolbox on your whole system ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

dateutils — command line date and time utilities 🎀

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like, dateutils is not one tool, it's a whole squad of tools 🫶 and every single one of them revolves around fiddling with dates and times right there in the command line.

and the way it's built? it's got a strong focus on the use cases that show up when you're dealing with large amounts of financial data. like, terabytes of timestamps energy. it's giving "quants who live in the terminal" and honestly? obsessed. 🔥

👑 COMMANDS 👑

here's the whole crew, one by one, no skips, no cuts 🌈

  • dadd(1) — add durations to dates or times ➕
  • dconv(1) — convert dates between calendars or time zones 🌍
  • ddiff(1) — compute durations between dates and times 📏
  • dgrep(1) — find date or time matches in input stream 🔍
  • dround(1) — round dates or times to designated values 🎯
  • dseq(1) — generate sequences of dates or times 🔢
  • dtest(1) — compare dates or times ⚖️
  • strptime(1) — command line version of the C function 🧚

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

written by Sebastian Freundt <freundt@fresse.org> — tysm for the gift, king 👑

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found something cursed? report bugs to:

https://github.com/hroptatyr/dateutils/issues

no gatekeeping, they actually want to know 💜

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

the full documentation for dateutils is maintained as a Texinfo manual 📚

and if the info program is properly installed at your site, then this command:

info dateutils

should give you access to the complete manual. periodt. 💅

and that's the whole page bestie 🎀 this was the dateutils page, September 2012 edition, from the dateutils source 🦋 mwah, go timestamp something beautiful 💖✨

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