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DCLDATE(1) GFD Dennou Club Library DCLDATE(1)

NAME

dcldat - display the current date and time

SYNOPSIS

dcldat

DESCRIPTION

dcldat is a utility program included in the GFD Dennou Club Library (DCL). It queries the current system date and time using DCL internal subroutines and prints them to the standard output.

The output format is:

Www Mmm dd HH:MM:SS JST yyyy

Where:

Day of the week (e.g., Sun, Mon).
Month name (e.g., Jan, Feb).
Day of the month.
Time (Hours, Minutes, Seconds).
Time zone (Fixed string 'JST' in this implementation).
Year.

OPTIONS

dcldat accepts standard DCL runtime parameters, although none affect the output format of this specific command.

EXAMPLES

To display the current date:

$ dcldat
Fri Jan 23 18:45:00 JST 2026

AUTHORS

Youhei SASAKI <uwabami@gfd-dennou.org>, GFD Dennou Club

SEE ALSO

date(1), dclconfig(1)

2026-01-23 DCL 7.5.2