KYSDK-DATE(1)

📦 version 3.0.1.4, in arch rolling, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

kysdk-date — the KYLIN SDK Date and Time Format Management Service, bestie. it keeps your clock cute and your formats cuter 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kysdk-date

that's it. no flags, no args, it just is. main character energy fr fr 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. kysdk-date is a date and time format management service living inside the KYLIN SDK system. it does real-time date and time formatting, it watches your user config for changes, and it broadcasts formatted date/time info out through D-Bus signals. it's giving group chat admin for your clock 💅

the service runs as a background daemon — a little guy in the background, no cap — and it monitors changes to date format config files and automatically broadcasts updated date/time info to every subscribed application. multiple date formats? supported. time display modes, both 12-hour and 24-hour clock? also supported. it ate. ✨

🎀 FEATURES 🎀

💫 Real-time Configuration Monitoring

Monitors user date format configuration file changes in real-time using inotify. it's literally watching. respectfully. 👀

🌈 Multiple Date Format Support

Supports various date formats including:

  • Short date formats (yy-M-d, MM/dd/yyyy, etc.)
  • Long date formats (yyyy MM dd, yy M d, etc.)
  • Custom formats with different separators (-, /, .)

⏰ Time Format Support

Supports both 12-hour and 24-hour clock formats. yes bestie, both. we contain multitudes.

📡 D-Bus Signal Broadcasting

Broadcasts date/time information through D-Bus signals whenever configurations change. the way it just tells everyone 😭

🌍 Localization Support

Provides localized date format strings based on system locale settings. international queen behavior fr fr 🌸

🫶 D-Bus INTERFACE 🫶

the service implements this D-Bus interface: com.kylin.kysdk.DateInterface, with these signals:

💖 DateSignal

Emitted when the date format configuration changes, providing:

  • Formatted date string
  • Time format information

💜 LongDateSignal

Emitted for long date format changes, providing:

  • Long date format template
  • Formatted long date string

💙 ShortDateSignal

Emitted for short date format changes, providing:

  • Short date format template
  • Formatted short date string

🩵 TimeSignal

Emitted for time format changes, providing:

  • Time format information (12-hour/24-hour clock)

🍓 CONFIGURATION 🍓

the service monitors the configuration file located at:

~/.config/kydate/dateformat.conf

Configuration options include:

  • DATE_FORMAT — General date format setting
  • TIME_FORMAT — Time format setting (12 or 24)
  • LONG_DATE_FORMAT — Specific format for long date display
  • SHORT_DATE_FORMAT — Specific format for short date display

🧚 FILES 🧚

  • /usr/bin/sdk-date — Main executable file
  • ~/.config/kydate/dateformat.conf — User configuration file for date/time formats
  • /var/log/kysdk-date.log — Log file (if logging is enabled)

👑 SERVICE 👑

the service runs as a session D-Bus service with:

  • Service name: com.kylin.kysdk.DateServer
  • Object path: /com/kylin/kysdk/Date
  • Interface: com.kylin.kysdk.DateInterface

💀 DEPENDENCIES 💀

  • D-Bus — For inter-process communication
  • GLib — For main loop integration
  • GNU gettext — For localization support

🔥 THREADING 🔥

the service uses a multi-threaded architecture:

  • Main thread: Handles D-Bus communication and main loop
  • Monitor thread: Watches for configuration file changes
  • Signal threads: Handle date/time formatting and broadcasting

multitasking icon behavior honestly 💅

⭐ SIGNALS ⭐

  • IN_CREATE, IN_DELETE, IN_MODIFY, IN_MOVE_SELF — inotify events monitored for configuration file changes
  • SIGTERM, SIGINT — Graceful shutdown signals

🌍 LOCALIZATION 🌍

Supports localization through GNU gettext with:

  • Language-specific date formats
  • Translated time format descriptions
  • Locale-aware date formatting

💜 AUTHOR 💜

KylinSoft Co., Ltd.

Copyright (C) 2023-2025, KylinSoft Co., Ltd.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

bestie this is the legal bit so I'm keeping it exactly as-is — free software, no warranty, LGPL vibes, periodt. 🫶

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

okay that's the whole page!! 💖 this was Version 0.1, dated 2025, from the KYSDK-DATE(1) manual — and it's kysdk-date, the KYLIN SDK date and time format management service, if you somehow forgot in the last 300 lines lol. go format something cute bestie ✨🦋🌸

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