PMDATE(1)

💖 PMDATE(1) 💖

okay bestie, this is pmdate from the General Commands Manual — she's a tiny icon from the Performance Co-Pilot crew and she's here to tell you what time it is (or what time it was, or what time it's gonna be). 🕰️✨

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✨ NAME ✨

pmdate — display an offset date 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pmdate [offset ...]  format

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the whole vibe of pmdate is: it displays the current date and/or time, and you can optionally throw an offset at it. That's it. That's the girl. 🎀

An offset is specified with a leading sign (+ or -), followed by an integer value, followed by one of these little "scale" specifiers — think of them as the units, the flavor packet, the je ne sais quoi:

• S — seconds ⏱️
• M — minutes
• H — hours
• d — days
• m — months
• y — years

The output format follows the exact same rules as date(1) and strftime(3) — so if you already know how to speak strftime, you're fluent here, no cap. 📆

For example, the following will display the date a week ago as DDMMYYYY:

pmdate -7d %d%m%Y

⚠️ heads up bestie: the scale specifiers are case-sensitive. M is minutes, m is months. Do not mix those up or your timeline gets messy. 💀

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🌈 PCP ENVIRONMENT 🌈

Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the file and directory names used by PCP. 👑

On each installation, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables. 📁

The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5). 🔧

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

date(1), strftime(3), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5). go read them, they're giving lore. 📚✨

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