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⟩.

Debian                                           January 9, 1999                                          POM(6)