pmdate (1) - Linux Manuals

pmdate: display an offset date

Command to display pmdate manual in Linux: $ man 1 pmdate

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).