Section 1 · User commands

pmdate.1

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PMDATE

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
PCP ENVIRONMENT
SEE ALSO

NAME

pmdate − display an offset date

SYNOPSIS

pmdate [offset …] format

DESCRIPTION

pmdate displays the current date and/or time, with an optional offset.

An offset is specified with a leading sign (‘‘+’’ or ‘‘-’’), followed by an integer value, followed by one of the following ‘‘scale’’ specifiers;


	S		seconds
	M		minutes
	H		hours
	d		days
	m		months
	y		years

The output format follows the same rules as for date(1) and strftime(3).

For example, the following will display the date a week ago as DDMMYYYY;

pmdate −7d %d%m%Y

PCP ENVIRONMENT

Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the file and directory names used by PCP. On each installation, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables. The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5).