1 /* date - print or set the system date and time
2 Copyright (C) 1989-1999 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>
33 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no `g' prefix). */
34 #define PROGRAM_NAME "date"
36 #define AUTHORS "David MacKenzie"
48 static void show_date
PARAMS ((const char *format
, time_t 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-822 format for mail or news. */
79 static int rfc_format
= 0;
81 /* If nonzero, print or set Coordinated Universal Time. */
82 static int universal_time
= 0;
84 static struct option
const long_options
[] =
86 {"date", required_argument
, NULL
, 'd'},
87 {"file", required_argument
, NULL
, 'f'},
88 {"iso-8601", optional_argument
, NULL
, 'I'},
89 {"reference", required_argument
, NULL
, 'r'},
90 {"rfc-822", no_argument
, NULL
, 'R'},
91 {"set", required_argument
, NULL
, 's'},
92 {"uct", no_argument
, NULL
, 'u'},
93 {"utc", no_argument
, NULL
, 'u'},
94 {"universal", no_argument
, NULL
, 'u'},
95 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL
},
96 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL
},
100 #define TZ_UTC0 "TZ=UTC0"
103 # define TZSET tzset ()
105 # define TZSET /* empty */
108 #define MAYBE_SET_TZ_UTC0 \
109 do { if (universal_time) set_tz (TZ_UTC0); } while (0)
115 fprintf (stderr
, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
120 Usage: %s [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]\n\
121 or: %s [OPTION] [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 -I, --iso-8601[=TIMESPEC] output an ISO-8601 compliant date/time string.\n\
130 TIMESPEC=`date' (or missing) for date only,\n\
131 `hours', `minutes', or `seconds' for date and\n\
132 time to the indicated precision.\n\
133 -r, --reference=FILE display the last modification time of FILE\n\
134 -R, --rfc-822 output RFC-822 compliant date string\n\
135 -s, --set=STRING set time described by STRING\n\
136 -u, --utc, --universal print or set Coordinated Universal Time\n\
137 --help display this help and exit\n\
138 --version output version information and exit\n\
142 FORMAT controls the output. The only valid option for the second form\n\
143 specifies Coordinated Universal Time. Interpreted sequences are:\n\
146 %%a locale's abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)\n\
147 %%A locale's full weekday name, variable length (Sunday..Saturday)\n\
148 %%b locale's abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)\n\
149 %%B locale's full month name, variable length (January..December)\n\
150 %%c locale's date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989)\n\
151 %%d day of month (01..31)\n\
152 %%D date (mm/dd/yy)\n\
153 %%e day of month, blank padded ( 1..31)\n\
157 %%j day of year (001..366)\n\
160 %%m month (01..12)\n\
161 %%M minute (00..59)\n\
163 %%p locale's AM or PM\n\
164 %%r time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M)\n\
165 %%s seconds since 00:00:00, Jan 1, 1970 (a GNU extension)\n\
166 %%S second (00..60)\n\
167 %%t a horizontal tab\n\
168 %%T time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)\n\
169 %%U week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)\n\
170 %%V week number of year with Monday as first day of week (01..52)\n\
171 %%w day of week (0..6); 0 represents Sunday\n\
172 %%W week number of year with Monday as first day of week (00..53)\n\
173 %%x locale's date representation (mm/dd/yy)\n\
174 %%X locale's time representation (%%H:%%M:%%S)\n\
175 %%y last two digits of year (00..99)\n\
176 %%Y year (1970...)\n\
177 %%z RFC-822 style numeric timezone (-0500) (a nonstandard extension)\n\
178 %%Z time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is determinable\n\
180 By default, date pads numeric fields with zeroes. GNU date recognizes\n\
181 the following modifiers between `%%' and a numeric directive.\n\
183 `-' (hyphen) do not pad the field\n\
184 `_' (underscore) pad the field with spaces\n\
186 puts (_("\nReport bugs to <bug-sh-utils@gnu.org>."));
191 /* Set the TZ environment variable. */
194 set_tz (const char *tz_eq_zone
)
196 if (putenv (tz_eq_zone
) != 0)
197 error (1, 0, "memory exhausted");
201 /* Parse each line in INPUT_FILENAME as with --date and display each
202 resulting time and date. If the file cannot be opened, tell why
203 then exit. Issue a diagnostic for any lines that cannot be parsed.
204 If any line cannot be parsed, return nonzero; otherwise return zero. */
207 batch_convert (const char *input_filename
, const char *format
)
218 /* Suppress `may be used before initialized' warning. */
222 if (strcmp (input_filename
, "-") == 0)
224 input_filename
= _("standard input");
229 in_stream
= fopen (input_filename
, "r");
230 if (in_stream
== NULL
)
232 error (1, errno
, "`%s'", input_filename
);
241 initial_TZ
= getenv ("TZ");
242 if (initial_TZ
== NULL
)
244 initial_TZ
= xstrdup ("TZ=");
248 size_t tz_len
= strlen (initial_TZ
);
249 char *buf
= xmalloc (3 + tz_len
+ 1);
250 memcpy (mempcpy (buf
, "TZ=", 3), initial_TZ
, tz_len
+ 1);
258 line_length
= getline (&line
, &buflen
, in_stream
);
261 /* FIXME: detect/handle error here. */
267 /* When given a universal time option, restore the initial
268 value of TZ before parsing each string. */
272 when
= get_date (line
, NULL
);
276 if (line
[line_length
- 1] == '\n')
277 line
[line_length
- 1] = '\0';
278 error (0, 0, _("invalid date `%s'"), line
);
284 show_date (format
, when
);
290 if (fclose (in_stream
) == EOF
)
291 error (2, errno
, "`%s'", input_filename
);
300 main (int argc
, char **argv
)
303 const char *datestr
= NULL
;
304 const char *set_datestr
= NULL
;
308 char *batch_file
= NULL
;
309 char *reference
= NULL
;
310 struct stat refstats
;
313 int option_specified_date
;
315 program_name
= argv
[0];
316 setlocale (LC_ALL
, "");
317 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE
, LOCALEDIR
);
318 textdomain (PACKAGE
);
320 while ((optc
= getopt_long (argc
, argv
, "d:f:I::r:Rs:u", long_options
, NULL
))
333 iso_8601_format
= (optarg
334 ? XARGMATCH ("--iso-8601", optarg
,
335 time_spec_string
, time_spec
)
345 set_datestr
= optarg
;
351 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR
;
352 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME
, AUTHORS
);
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"));
370 if (set_date
&& option_specified_date
)
373 _("the options to print and set the time may not be used together"));
379 error (0, 0, _("too many non-option arguments"));
383 if ((set_date
|| option_specified_date
)
384 && n_args
== 1 && argv
[optind
][0] != '+')
387 the argument `%s' lacks a leading `+';\n\
388 When using an option to specify date(s), any non-option\n\
389 argument must be a format string beginning with `+'."),
395 datestr
= set_datestr
;
397 if (batch_file
!= NULL
)
399 status
= batch_convert (batch_file
,
400 (n_args
== 1 ? argv
[optind
] + 1 : NULL
));
406 if (!option_specified_date
&& !set_date
)
408 if (n_args
== 1 && argv
[optind
][0] != '+')
410 /* Prepare to set system clock to the specified date/time
411 given in the POSIX-format. */
413 datestr
= argv
[optind
];
414 when
= posixtime (datestr
,
415 PDS_TRAILING_YEAR
| PDS_CENTURY
| PDS_SECONDS
);
420 /* Prepare to print the current date/time. */
421 datestr
= _("undefined");
423 format
= (n_args
== 1 ? argv
[optind
] + 1 : NULL
);
428 /* (option_specified_date || set_date) */
429 if (reference
!= NULL
)
431 if (stat (reference
, &refstats
))
432 error (1, errno
, "%s", reference
);
433 when
= refstats
.st_mtime
;
437 when
= get_date (datestr
, NULL
);
440 format
= (n_args
== 1 ? argv
[optind
] + 1 : NULL
);
444 error (1, 0, _("invalid date `%s'"), datestr
);
448 /* Set the system clock to the specified date, then regardless of
449 the success of that operation, format and print that date. */
450 if (stime (&when
) == -1)
452 error (0, errno
, _("cannot set date"));
457 /* When given a universal time option, set TZ to UTC0 after
458 parsing the specified date, but before printing it. */
461 show_date (format
, when
);
464 close_stdout_status (2);
469 /* Display the date and/or time in WHEN according to the format specified
470 in FORMAT, followed by a newline. If FORMAT is NULL, use the
471 standard output format (ctime style but with a timezone inserted). */
474 show_date (const char *format
, time_t when
)
478 size_t out_length
= 0;
479 /* ISO 8601 formats, in local and UTC. See below regarding %z */
480 static char *iso_format_string
[5][2] =
483 {"%Y-%m-%d", "%Y-%m-%d"},
484 {"%Y-%m-%dT%H%z", "%Y-%m-%dT%HZ"},
485 {"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M%z", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%MZ"},
486 {"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z", "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"}
489 tm
= localtime (&when
);
493 /* Print the date in the default format. Vanilla ANSI C strftime
494 doesn't support %e, but POSIX requires it. If you don't use
495 a GNU strftime, make sure yours supports %e.
496 If you are not using GNU strftime, you want to change %z
497 in the RFC format to %Z; this gives, however, an invalid
498 RFC time format outside the continental United States and GMT. */
502 ? "%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT"
503 : "%a, %_d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")
505 ? iso_format_string
[iso_8601_format
][universal_time
]
506 : "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y"));
508 else if (*format
== '\0')
517 out
= (char *) xrealloc (out
, out_length
);
519 /* Mark the first byte of the buffer so we can detect the case
520 of strftime producing an empty string. Otherwise, this loop
521 would not terminate when date was invoked like this
522 `LANG=de date +%p' on a system with good language support. */
525 while (strftime (out
, out_length
, format
, tm
) == 0 && out
[0] != '\0');
527 printf ("%s\n", out
);