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sdate(1) Debian manual sdate(1)

NAME

sdate - never ending September date

SYNOPSIS

sdate [-e|--epoch yyyy-mm] [-c|--covid vv] [-l|--lib library] [--] [command]

DESCRIPTION

sdate runs a command in an environment wherein it wraps the libc localtime() and gmtime() calls such that the program will use the eternal September date. The wrapper functions are in a shared library /usr/lib/libsdate/libsdate.so* which is loaded through the LD_PRELOAD mechanism of the dynamic loader. (See ld.so(8))

OPTIONS

Specify an alternative epoch, default is 1993-09.
Enable COVID mode, for the specified variant. Sets epoch to an appropriate value for the variant.
Specify an alternative wrapper library.
[--] command
Any command you want to be ran. Use ‘--’ if in the command you have other options that may confuse sdate's option parsing.
Display help.
Display version.

FILES

/usr/lib/libsdate/* The shared library containing the wrapper functions.

ENVIRONMENT

LD_PRELOAD

LIMITATIONS

Every command executed within sdate needs to be linked to the same version of the C library as sdate itself.

SEE ALSO

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/September-that-never-ended.html
https://www.df7cb.de/projects/sdate/

COPYING

sdate is distributed under the GNU General Public License. (GPL v2 or later).

AUTHORS

<cb@df7cb.de>
4620 September 1993 Debian Project