1 /* date - print or set the system date and time
2 Copyright (C) 1989-2001 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>
25 # include <langinfo.h>
36 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no `g' prefix). */
37 #define PROGRAM_NAME "date"
39 #define AUTHORS "David MacKenzie"
49 static void show_date PARAMS ((const char *format, time_t when));
53 /* display only the date: 1999-03-25 */
55 /* display date and hour: 1999-03-25T03-0500 */
57 /* display date, hours, and minutes: 1999-03-25T03:23-0500 */
59 /* display date, hours, minutes, and seconds: 1999-03-25T03:23:14-0500 */
63 static char const *const time_spec_string[] =
65 "date", "hours", "minutes", "seconds", 0
68 static enum Time_spec const time_spec[] =
70 TIME_SPEC_DATE, TIME_SPEC_HOURS, TIME_SPEC_MINUTES, TIME_SPEC_SECONDS
73 /* The name this program was run with, for error messages. */
76 /* If nonzero, display an ISO 8601 format date/time string */
77 static int iso_8601_format = 0;
79 /* If non-zero, display time in RFC-(2)822 format for mail or news. */
80 static int rfc_format = 0;
82 static struct option const long_options[] =
84 {"date", required_argument, NULL, 'd'},
85 {"file", required_argument, NULL, 'f'},
86 {"iso-8601", optional_argument, NULL, 'I'},
87 {"reference", required_argument, NULL, 'r'},
88 {"rfc-822", no_argument, NULL, 'R'},
89 {"set", required_argument, NULL, 's'},
90 {"uct", no_argument, NULL, 'u'},
91 {"utc", no_argument, NULL, 'u'},
92 {"universal", no_argument, NULL, 'u'},
93 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL},
94 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL},
99 # define TZSET tzset ()
101 # define TZSET /* empty */
105 # define DATE_FMT_LANGINFO() nl_langinfo (_DATE_FMT)
107 # define DATE_FMT_LANGINFO() ""
114 fprintf (stderr, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
119 Usage: %s [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]\n\
120 or: %s [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]\n\
122 program_name, program_name);
124 Display the current time in the given FORMAT, or set the system date.\n\
126 -d, --date=STRING display time described by STRING, not `now'\n\
127 -f, --file=DATEFILE like --date once for each line of DATEFILE\n\
128 -I, --iso-8601[=TIMESPEC] output an ISO-8601 compliant date/time string.\n\
129 TIMESPEC=`date' (or missing) for date only,\n\
130 `hours', `minutes', or `seconds' for date and\n\
131 time to the indicated precision.\n\
134 -r, --reference=FILE display the last modification time of FILE\n\
135 -R, --rfc-822 output RFC-822 compliant date string\n\
136 -s, --set=STRING set time described by STRING\n\
137 -u, --utc, --universal print or set Coordinated Universal Time\n\
139 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
140 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
143 FORMAT controls the output. The only valid option for the second form\n\
144 specifies Coordinated Universal Time. Interpreted sequences are:\n\
147 %a locale's abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)\n\
150 %A locale's full weekday name, variable length (Sunday..Saturday)\n\
151 %b locale's abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)\n\
152 %B locale's full month name, variable length (January..December)\n\
153 %c locale's date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989)\n\
156 %C century (year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer) [00-99]\n\
157 %d day of month (01..31)\n\
158 %D date (mm/dd/yy)\n\
159 %e day of month, blank padded ( 1..31)\n\
165 %j day of year (001..366)\n\
171 %M minute (00..59)\n\
175 %p locale's AM or PM\n\
176 %r time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M)\n\
177 %s seconds since `00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC' (a GNU extension)\n\
180 %S second (00..60)\n\
181 %t a horizontal tab\n\
182 %T time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)\n\
183 %u day of week (1..7); 1 represents Monday\n\
186 %U week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)\n\
187 %V week number of year with Monday as first day of week (01..53)\n\
188 %w day of week (0..6); 0 represents Sunday\n\
189 %W week number of year with Monday as first day of week (00..53)\n\
192 %x locale's date representation (mm/dd/yy)\n\
193 %X locale's time representation (%H:%M:%S)\n\
194 %y last two digits of year (00..99)\n\
198 %z RFC-822 style numeric timezone (-0500) (a nonstandard extension)\n\
199 %Z time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is determinable\n\
201 By default, date pads numeric fields with zeroes. GNU date recognizes\n\
202 the following modifiers between `%' and a numeric directive.\n\
204 `-' (hyphen) do not pad the field\n\
205 `_' (underscore) pad the field with spaces\n\
207 puts (_("\nReport bugs to <bug-sh-utils@gnu.org>."));
212 /* Parse each line in INPUT_FILENAME as with --date and display each
213 resulting time and date. If the file cannot be opened, tell why
214 then exit. Issue a diagnostic for any lines that cannot be parsed.
215 If any line cannot be parsed, return nonzero; otherwise return zero. */
218 batch_convert (const char *input_filename, const char *format)
227 if (strcmp (input_filename, "-") == 0)
229 input_filename = _("standard input");
234 in_stream = fopen (input_filename, "r");
235 if (in_stream == NULL)
237 error (1, errno, "`%s'", input_filename);
246 line_length = getline (&line, &buflen, in_stream);
249 /* FIXME: detect/handle error here. */
253 when = get_date (line, NULL);
257 if (line[line_length - 1] == '\n')
258 line[line_length - 1] = '\0';
259 error (0, 0, _("invalid date `%s'"), line);
264 show_date (format, when);
268 if (fclose (in_stream) == EOF)
269 error (2, errno, "`%s'", input_filename);
278 main (int argc, char **argv)
281 const char *datestr = NULL;
282 const char *set_datestr = NULL;
286 char *batch_file = NULL;
287 char *reference = NULL;
288 struct stat refstats;
291 int option_specified_date;
293 program_name = argv[0];
294 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
295 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
296 textdomain (PACKAGE);
298 close_stdout_set_status (2);
299 atexit (close_stdout);
301 while ((optc = getopt_long (argc, argv, "d:f:I::r:Rs:u", long_options, NULL))
314 iso_8601_format = (optarg
315 ? XARGMATCH ("--iso-8601", optarg,
316 time_spec_string, time_spec)
326 set_datestr = optarg;
330 /* POSIX says that `date -u' is equivalent to setting the TZ
331 environment variable, so this option should do nothing other
333 if (putenv ("TZ=UTC0") != 0)
337 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR;
338 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS);
343 n_args = argc - optind;
345 option_specified_date = ((datestr ? 1 : 0)
346 + (batch_file ? 1 : 0)
347 + (reference ? 1 : 0));
349 if (option_specified_date > 1)
352 _("the options to specify dates for printing are mutually exclusive"));
356 if (set_date && option_specified_date)
359 _("the options to print and set the time may not be used together"));
365 error (0, 0, _("too many non-option arguments: %s%s"),
366 argv[optind + 1], n_args == 2 ? "" : " ...");
370 if ((set_date || option_specified_date)
371 && n_args == 1 && argv[optind][0] != '+')
374 the argument `%s' lacks a leading `+';\n\
375 When using an option to specify date(s), any non-option\n\
376 argument must be a format string beginning with `+'."),
381 /* Simply ignore --rfc-822 if specified when setting the date. */
382 if (rfc_format && !set_date && n_args > 0)
385 _("a format string may not be specified when using\
386 the --rfc-822 (-R) option"));
391 datestr = set_datestr;
393 if (batch_file != NULL)
395 status = batch_convert (batch_file,
396 (n_args == 1 ? argv[optind] + 1 : NULL));
402 if (!option_specified_date && !set_date)
404 if (n_args == 1 && argv[optind][0] != '+')
406 /* Prepare to set system clock to the specified date/time
407 given in the POSIX-format. */
409 datestr = argv[optind];
410 when = posixtime (datestr,
411 PDS_TRAILING_YEAR | PDS_CENTURY | PDS_SECONDS);
416 /* Prepare to print the current date/time. */
417 datestr = _("undefined");
419 format = (n_args == 1 ? argv[optind] + 1 : NULL);
424 /* (option_specified_date || set_date) */
425 if (reference != NULL)
427 if (stat (reference, &refstats))
428 error (1, errno, "%s", reference);
429 when = refstats.st_mtime;
433 when = get_date (datestr, NULL);
436 format = (n_args == 1 ? argv[optind] + 1 : NULL);
440 error (1, 0, _("invalid date `%s'"), datestr);
444 /* Set the system clock to the specified date, then regardless of
445 the success of that operation, format and print that date. */
446 if (stime (&when) == -1)
448 error (0, errno, _("cannot set date"));
453 show_date (format, when);
459 /* Display the date and/or time in WHEN according to the format specified
460 in FORMAT, followed by a newline. If FORMAT is NULL, use the
461 standard output format (ctime style but with a timezone inserted). */
464 show_date (const char *format, time_t when)
468 size_t out_length = 0;
469 /* ISO 8601 formats. See below regarding %z */
470 static char const * const iso_format_string[] =
475 "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z"
478 tm = localtime (&when);
482 /* Print the date in the default format. Vanilla ANSI C strftime
483 doesn't support %e, but POSIX requires it. If you don't use
484 a GNU strftime, make sure yours supports %e.
485 If you are not using GNU strftime, you want to change %z
486 in the RFC format to %Z; this gives, however, an invalid
487 RFC time format outside the continental United States and GMT. */
490 format = "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z";
491 else if (iso_8601_format)
492 format = iso_format_string[iso_8601_format - 1];
495 char *date_fmt = DATE_FMT_LANGINFO ();
496 /* Do not wrap the following literal format string with _(...).
497 For example, suppose LC_ALL is unset, LC_TIME="POSIX",
498 and LANG="ko_KR". In that case, POSIX says that LC_TIME
499 determines the format and contents of date and time strings
500 written by date, which means "date" must generate output
501 using the POSIX locale; but adding _() would cause "date"
502 to use a Korean translation of the format. */
503 format = *date_fmt ? date_fmt : "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y";
506 else if (*format == '\0')
516 out = (char *) xrealloc (out, out_length);
518 /* Mark the first byte of the buffer so we can detect the case
519 of strftime producing an empty string. Otherwise, this loop
520 would not terminate when date was invoked like this
521 `LANG=de date +%p' on a system with good language support. */
525 setlocale (LC_ALL, "C");
527 done = (strftime (out, out_length, format, tm) || out[0] == '\0');
530 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
536 printf ("%s\n", out);