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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’’
       specifiers;

       S      seconds
       M      minutes
       H      hours
       d      days
       m      months
       y      years

       The  output  format  follows  the  same  rules  as  for   date(1)   and
       strftime(3).

       For  example,  the  following  will  display  the  date  a  week ago as
       DDMMYYYY;
               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 ALSO

       date(1), strftime(3), pcp.conf(4) and pcp.env(4).