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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 (β€˜β€˜+’’ or β€˜β€˜-’’), followed by an integer value, followed by one of the following β€˜β€˜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).

SEE ALSO

date (1), strftime (3), pcp.conf (5) and pcp.env (5).