PMDATE(1)PMDATE(1)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'' speci‐
fiers;
S seconds
M minutes
H hours
d days
m months
y years
The output format follows the same rules as for date(1) and strf‐
time(3).
For example, the following will display the date a week ago as DDM‐
MYYYY;
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(4).
SEE ALSOdate(1), strftime(3), pcp.conf(4) and pcp.env(4).
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