sdate(1)
never ending September date
SYNOPSIS
sdate
[-e|--epoch
yyyy-mm]
[-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
- -e yyyy-mm, --epoch yyyy-mm
-
Specify an alternative epoch, default is 1993-09.
- -l library, --lib library
-
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.
- -h
-
Display help.
- -v
-
Display version.
FILES
/usr/lib/libsdate/*
The shared library containing the wrapper functions.
ENVIRONMENT
LD_PRELOAD
LIMITATIONS
- Library versions
-
Every command executed within
sdate
needs to be linked to the same version of the C library as
sdate
itself.
COPYING
sdate
is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
(GPL v2 or later).
