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

       -e yyyy-mm, --epoch yyyy-mm
              Specify an alternative epoch, default is 1993-09.

       -c vv, --covid vv
              Enable COVID mode, for the specified variant. Sets epoch to an appropriate value for the variant.

       -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.

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

       Christoph Berg
              <cb@df7cb.de>

Debian Project                                 4620 September 1993                                      sdate(1)