NAME¶
pom —
display the phase of the moon
SYNOPSIS¶
pom |
[ [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH] ] |
DESCRIPTION¶
The
pom utility displays the current phase of
the moon. Useful for selecting software completion target dates and predicting
managerial behavior.
- [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]
- Display the phase of the moon for a given time. The format is similar to
the canonical representation used by
date(1).
SEE ALSO¶
date(1)
AUTHOR¶
pom was written by
Keith E. Brandt.
BUGS¶
Times must be within range of the
UNIX epoch.
This program does not allow for the difference between the TDT and UTC
timescales (about one minute at the time of writing).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS¶
This program is based on algorithms from
Practical Astronomy with
Your Calculator, Third Edition by Peter Duffett-Smith
⟨pjds@mrao.cam.ac.uk⟩.
