1 /* date - print or set the system date and time
2 Copyright (C) 1989-2003 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>
40 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no `g' prefix). */
41 #define PROGRAM_NAME "date"
43 #define WRITTEN_BY _("Written by David MacKenzie.")
47 static void show_date (const char *format, struct timespec when);
51 /* display only the date: 1999-03-25 */
53 /* display date and hour: 1999-03-25T03-0500 */
55 /* display date, hours, and minutes: 1999-03-25T03:23-0500 */
57 /* display date, hours, minutes, and seconds: 1999-03-25T03:23:14-0500 */
61 static char const *const time_spec_string[] =
63 "date", "hours", "minutes", "seconds", 0
66 static enum Time_spec const time_spec[] =
68 TIME_SPEC_DATE, TIME_SPEC_HOURS, TIME_SPEC_MINUTES, TIME_SPEC_SECONDS
71 /* The name this program was run with, for error messages. */
74 /* If nonzero, display an ISO 8601 format date/time string */
75 static int iso_8601_format = 0;
77 /* If non-zero, display time in RFC-(2)822 format for mail or news. */
78 static int rfc_format = 0;
80 #define COMMON_SHORT_OPTIONS "Rd:f:r:s:u"
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 {"rfc-2822", 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-2822 output RFC-2822 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); the 60 is necessary to accommodate a leap second\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-2822 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", quote (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", quote (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 initialize_main (&argc, &argv);
308 program_name = argv[0];
309 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
310 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
311 textdomain (PACKAGE);
314 atexit (close_stdout);
316 while ((optc = getopt_long (argc, argv, short_options, long_options, NULL))
329 iso_8601_format = (optarg
330 ? XARGMATCH ("--iso-8601", optarg,
331 time_spec_string, time_spec)
341 set_datestr = optarg;
345 /* POSIX says that `date -u' is equivalent to setting the TZ
346 environment variable, so this option should do nothing other
348 if (putenv ("TZ=UTC0") != 0)
352 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR;
353 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, WRITTEN_BY);
355 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
358 n_args = argc - optind;
360 option_specified_date = ((datestr ? 1 : 0)
361 + (batch_file ? 1 : 0)
362 + (reference ? 1 : 0));
364 if (option_specified_date > 1)
367 _("the options to specify dates for printing are mutually exclusive"));
368 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
371 if (set_date && option_specified_date)
374 _("the options to print and set the time may not be used together"));
375 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
380 error (0, 0, _("too many non-option arguments: %s%s"),
381 argv[optind + 1], n_args == 2 ? "" : " ...");
382 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
385 if ((set_date || option_specified_date)
386 && n_args == 1 && argv[optind][0] != '+')
389 the argument `%s' lacks a leading `+';\n\
390 When using an option to specify date(s), any non-option\n\
391 argument must be a format string beginning with `+'."),
393 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
396 /* Simply ignore --rfc-2822 if specified when setting the date. */
397 if (rfc_format && !set_date && n_args > 0)
400 _("a format string may not be specified when using\
401 the --rfc-2822 (-R) option"));
402 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
406 datestr = set_datestr;
408 if (batch_file != NULL)
410 status = batch_convert (batch_file,
411 (n_args == 1 ? argv[optind] + 1 : NULL));
415 bool valid_date = true;
418 if (!option_specified_date && !set_date)
420 if (n_args == 1 && argv[optind][0] != '+')
422 /* Prepare to set system clock to the specified date/time
423 given in the POSIX-format. */
425 datestr = argv[optind];
426 valid_date = posixtime (&when.tv_sec,
429 | PDS_CENTURY | PDS_SECONDS));
430 when.tv_nsec = 0; /* FIXME: posixtime should set this. */
435 /* Prepare to print the current date/time. */
436 datestr = _("undefined");
437 if (gettime (&when) != 0)
438 error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("cannot get time of day"));
439 format = (n_args == 1 ? argv[optind] + 1 : NULL);
444 /* (option_specified_date || set_date) */
445 if (reference != NULL)
447 if (stat (reference, &refstats))
448 error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", reference);
449 when.tv_sec = refstats.st_mtime;
450 when.tv_nsec = TIMESPEC_NS (refstats.st_mtim);
454 when.tv_sec = get_date (datestr, NULL);
455 when.tv_nsec = 0; /* FIXME: get_date should set this. */
456 valid_date = (when.tv_sec != (time_t) -1);
459 format = (n_args == 1 ? argv[optind] + 1 : NULL);
463 error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("invalid date `%s'"), datestr);
467 /* Set the system clock to the specified date, then regardless of
468 the success of that operation, format and print that date. */
469 if (settime (&when) != 0)
471 error (0, errno, _("cannot set date"));
476 show_date (format, when);
482 /* Display the date and/or time in WHEN according to the format specified
483 in FORMAT, followed by a newline. If FORMAT is NULL, use the
484 standard output format (ctime style but with a timezone inserted). */
487 show_date (const char *format, struct timespec when)
491 size_t out_length = 0;
492 /* ISO 8601 formats. See below regarding %z */
493 static char const * const iso_format_string[] =
498 "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z"
501 tm = localtime (&when.tv_sec);
506 format = "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z";
507 else if (iso_8601_format)
508 format = iso_format_string[iso_8601_format - 1];
511 char *date_fmt = DATE_FMT_LANGINFO ();
512 /* Do not wrap the following literal format string with _(...).
513 For example, suppose LC_ALL is unset, LC_TIME="POSIX",
514 and LANG="ko_KR". In that case, POSIX says that LC_TIME
515 determines the format and contents of date and time strings
516 written by date, which means "date" must generate output
517 using the POSIX locale; but adding _() would cause "date"
518 to use a Korean translation of the format. */
519 format = *date_fmt ? date_fmt : "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y";
522 else if (*format == '\0')
532 out = xrealloc (out, out_length);
534 /* Mark the first byte of the buffer so we can detect the case
535 of nstrftime producing an empty string. Otherwise, this loop
536 would not terminate when date was invoked like this
537 `LANG=de date +%p' on a system with good language support. */
541 setlocale (LC_ALL, "C");
543 done = (nstrftime (out, out_length, format, tm, 0, when.tv_nsec)
547 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
553 printf ("%s\n", out);