1 /* date - print or set the system date and time
2 Copyright (C) 1989-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
18 David MacKenzie <djm@gnu.ai.mit.edu> */
23 #include <sys/types.h>
24 #if HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
25 # include <langinfo.h>
38 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no `g' prefix). */
39 #define PROGRAM_NAME "date"
41 #define AUTHORS "David MacKenzie"
45 size_t nstrftime PARAMS ((char *, size_t, char const *,
46 struct tm const *, int, int));
48 static void show_date PARAMS ((const char *format, struct timespec when));
52 /* display only the date: 1999-03-25 */
54 /* display date and hour: 1999-03-25T03-0500 */
56 /* display date, hours, and minutes: 1999-03-25T03:23-0500 */
58 /* display date, hours, minutes, and seconds: 1999-03-25T03:23:14-0500 */
62 static char const *const time_spec_string[] =
64 "date", "hours", "minutes", "seconds", 0
67 static enum Time_spec const time_spec[] =
69 TIME_SPEC_DATE, TIME_SPEC_HOURS, TIME_SPEC_MINUTES, TIME_SPEC_SECONDS
72 /* The name this program was run with, for error messages. */
75 /* If nonzero, display an ISO 8601 format date/time string */
76 static int iso_8601_format = 0;
78 /* If non-zero, display time in RFC-(2)822 format for mail or news. */
79 static int rfc_format = 0;
81 #define COMMON_SHORT_OPTIONS "Rd:f:r:s:u"
83 static struct option const long_options[] =
85 {"date", required_argument, NULL, 'd'},
86 {"file", required_argument, NULL, 'f'},
87 {"iso-8601", optional_argument, NULL, 'I'},
88 {"reference", required_argument, NULL, 'r'},
89 {"rfc-822", no_argument, NULL, 'R'},
90 {"set", required_argument, NULL, 's'},
91 {"uct", no_argument, NULL, 'u'},
92 {"utc", no_argument, NULL, 'u'},
93 {"universal", no_argument, NULL, 'u'},
94 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL},
95 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL},
100 # define TZSET tzset ()
102 # define TZSET /* empty */
106 # define DATE_FMT_LANGINFO() nl_langinfo (_DATE_FMT)
108 # define DATE_FMT_LANGINFO() ""
115 fprintf (stderr, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
120 Usage: %s [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]\n\
121 or: %s [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]\n\
123 program_name, program_name);
125 Display the current time in the given FORMAT, or set the system date.\n\
127 -d, --date=STRING display time described by STRING, not `now'\n\
128 -f, --file=DATEFILE like --date once for each line of DATEFILE\n\
129 -ITIMESPEC, --iso-8601[=TIMESPEC] output date/time in ISO 8601 format.\n\
130 TIMESPEC=`date' for date only,\n\
131 `hours', `minutes', or `seconds' for date and\n\
132 time to the indicated precision.\n\
133 --iso-8601 without TIMESPEC defaults to `date'.\n\
136 -r, --reference=FILE display the last modification time of FILE\n\
137 -R, --rfc-822 output RFC-822 compliant date string\n\
138 -s, --set=STRING set time described by STRING\n\
139 -u, --utc, --universal print or set Coordinated Universal Time\n\
141 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
142 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
145 FORMAT controls the output. The only valid option for the second form\n\
146 specifies Coordinated Universal Time. Interpreted sequences are:\n\
149 %a locale's abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)\n\
152 %A locale's full weekday name, variable length (Sunday..Saturday)\n\
153 %b locale's abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)\n\
154 %B locale's full month name, variable length (January..December)\n\
155 %c locale's date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989)\n\
158 %C century (year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer) [00-99]\n\
159 %d day of month (01..31)\n\
160 %D date (mm/dd/yy)\n\
161 %e day of month, blank padded ( 1..31)\n\
164 %F same as %Y-%m-%d\n\
165 %g the 2-digit year corresponding to the %V week number\n\
166 %G the 4-digit year corresponding to the %V week number\n\
172 %j day of year (001..366)\n\
178 %M minute (00..59)\n\
182 %N nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)\n\
183 %p locale's upper case AM or PM indicator (blank in many locales)\n\
184 %P locale's lower case am or pm indicator (blank in many locales)\n\
185 %r time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M)\n\
186 %R time, 24-hour (hh:mm)\n\
187 %s seconds since `00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC' (a GNU extension)\n\
190 %S second (00..60)\n\
191 %t a horizontal tab\n\
192 %T time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)\n\
193 %u day of week (1..7); 1 represents Monday\n\
196 %U week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)\n\
197 %V week number of year with Monday as first day of week (01..53)\n\
198 %w day of week (0..6); 0 represents Sunday\n\
199 %W week number of year with Monday as first day of week (00..53)\n\
202 %x locale's date representation (mm/dd/yy)\n\
203 %X locale's time representation (%H:%M:%S)\n\
204 %y last two digits of year (00..99)\n\
208 %z RFC-822 style numeric timezone (-0500) (a nonstandard extension)\n\
209 %Z time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is determinable\n\
211 By default, date pads numeric fields with zeroes. GNU date recognizes\n\
212 the following modifiers between `%' and a numeric directive.\n\
214 `-' (hyphen) do not pad the field\n\
215 `_' (underscore) pad the field with spaces\n\
217 printf (_("\nReport bugs to <%s>.\n"), PACKAGE_BUGREPORT);
222 /* Parse each line in INPUT_FILENAME as with --date and display each
223 resulting time and date. If the file cannot be opened, tell why
224 then exit. Issue a diagnostic for any lines that cannot be parsed.
225 If any line cannot be parsed, return nonzero; otherwise return zero. */
228 batch_convert (const char *input_filename, const char *format)
235 struct timespec when;
237 if (strcmp (input_filename, "-") == 0)
239 input_filename = _("standard input");
244 in_stream = fopen (input_filename, "r");
245 if (in_stream == NULL)
247 error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "`%s'", input_filename);
256 line_length = getline (&line, &buflen, in_stream);
259 /* FIXME: detect/handle error here. */
263 when.tv_sec = get_date (line, NULL);
264 when.tv_nsec = 0; /* FIXME: get_date should set this. */
266 if (when.tv_sec == -1)
268 if (line[line_length - 1] == '\n')
269 line[line_length - 1] = '\0';
270 error (0, 0, _("invalid date `%s'"), line);
275 show_date (format, when);
279 if (fclose (in_stream) == EOF)
280 error (2, errno, "`%s'", input_filename);
289 main (int argc, char **argv)
292 const char *datestr = NULL;
293 const char *set_datestr = NULL;
294 struct timespec when;
297 char *batch_file = NULL;
298 char *reference = NULL;
299 struct stat refstats;
302 int option_specified_date;
303 char const *short_options = (posix2_version () < 200112
304 ? COMMON_SHORT_OPTIONS "I::"
305 : COMMON_SHORT_OPTIONS "I:");
307 program_name = argv[0];
308 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
309 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
310 textdomain (PACKAGE);
312 close_stdout_set_status (2);
313 atexit (close_stdout);
315 while ((optc = getopt_long (argc, argv, short_options, long_options, NULL))
328 iso_8601_format = (optarg
329 ? XARGMATCH ("--iso-8601", optarg,
330 time_spec_string, time_spec)
340 set_datestr = optarg;
344 /* POSIX says that `date -u' is equivalent to setting the TZ
345 environment variable, so this option should do nothing other
347 if (putenv ("TZ=UTC0") != 0)
351 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR;
352 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS);
354 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
357 n_args = argc - optind;
359 option_specified_date = ((datestr ? 1 : 0)
360 + (batch_file ? 1 : 0)
361 + (reference ? 1 : 0));
363 if (option_specified_date > 1)
366 _("the options to specify dates for printing are mutually exclusive"));
367 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
370 if (set_date && option_specified_date)
373 _("the options to print and set the time may not be used together"));
374 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
379 error (0, 0, _("too many non-option arguments: %s%s"),
380 argv[optind + 1], n_args == 2 ? "" : " ...");
381 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
384 if ((set_date || option_specified_date)
385 && n_args == 1 && argv[optind][0] != '+')
388 the argument `%s' lacks a leading `+';\n\
389 When using an option to specify date(s), any non-option\n\
390 argument must be a format string beginning with `+'."),
392 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
395 /* Simply ignore --rfc-822 if specified when setting the date. */
396 if (rfc_format && !set_date && n_args > 0)
399 _("a format string may not be specified when using\
400 the --rfc-822 (-R) option"));
401 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
405 datestr = set_datestr;
407 if (batch_file != NULL)
409 status = batch_convert (batch_file,
410 (n_args == 1 ? argv[optind] + 1 : NULL));
414 bool valid_date = true;
417 if (!option_specified_date && !set_date)
419 if (n_args == 1 && argv[optind][0] != '+')
421 /* Prepare to set system clock to the specified date/time
422 given in the POSIX-format. */
424 datestr = argv[optind];
425 valid_date = posixtime (&when.tv_sec,
428 | PDS_CENTURY | PDS_SECONDS));
429 when.tv_nsec = 0; /* FIXME: posixtime should set this. */
434 /* Prepare to print the current date/time. */
435 datestr = _("undefined");
436 if (gettime (&when) != 0)
437 error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("cannot get time of day"));
438 format = (n_args == 1 ? argv[optind] + 1 : NULL);
443 /* (option_specified_date || set_date) */
444 if (reference != NULL)
446 if (stat (reference, &refstats))
447 error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", reference);
448 when.tv_sec = refstats.st_mtime;
449 when.tv_nsec = TIMESPEC_NS (refstats.st_mtim);
453 when.tv_sec = get_date (datestr, NULL);
454 when.tv_nsec = 0; /* FIXME: get_date should set this. */
455 valid_date = (when.tv_sec != (time_t) -1);
458 format = (n_args == 1 ? argv[optind] + 1 : NULL);
462 error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("invalid date `%s'"), datestr);
466 /* Set the system clock to the specified date, then regardless of
467 the success of that operation, format and print that date. */
468 if (settime (&when) != 0)
470 error (0, errno, _("cannot set date"));
475 show_date (format, when);
481 /* Display the date and/or time in WHEN according to the format specified
482 in FORMAT, followed by a newline. If FORMAT is NULL, use the
483 standard output format (ctime style but with a timezone inserted). */
486 show_date (const char *format, struct timespec when)
490 size_t out_length = 0;
491 /* ISO 8601 formats. See below regarding %z */
492 static char const * const iso_format_string[] =
497 "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z"
500 tm = localtime (&when.tv_sec);
505 format = "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z";
506 else if (iso_8601_format)
507 format = iso_format_string[iso_8601_format - 1];
510 char *date_fmt = DATE_FMT_LANGINFO ();
511 /* Do not wrap the following literal format string with _(...).
512 For example, suppose LC_ALL is unset, LC_TIME="POSIX",
513 and LANG="ko_KR". In that case, POSIX says that LC_TIME
514 determines the format and contents of date and time strings
515 written by date, which means "date" must generate output
516 using the POSIX locale; but adding _() would cause "date"
517 to use a Korean translation of the format. */
518 format = *date_fmt ? date_fmt : "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y";
521 else if (*format == '\0')
531 out = (char *) xrealloc (out, out_length);
533 /* Mark the first byte of the buffer so we can detect the case
534 of nstrftime producing an empty string. Otherwise, this loop
535 would not terminate when date was invoked like this
536 `LANG=de date +%p' on a system with good language support. */
540 setlocale (LC_ALL, "C");
542 done = (nstrftime (out, out_length, format, tm, 0, when.tv_nsec)
546 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
552 printf ("%s\n", out);