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NAME

       saydate 0.3.0 - audio date/uptime check

SYNOPSIS

       saydate [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the saydate command.

       saydate  is  a  Linux shell program that talks the current date through
       the computer’s sound device.  It is adapted from the shell  version  of
       saytime.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -dow   Say weekday name (Sunday..Saturday).

       -month Say month name (January..December).

       -day   Say day of month (the 1st..31st).

       -year  Say year (1970...).

       -uptime
              Say the system uptime (uptime is 7 days 3 hours 47 minutes).

       -the_date_is
              Say the phrase the date is.

       -the   Say the word the.

       -and   Say the word and.

       --help Show summary of options.

       --version
              Show version of program.

FILES

       /usr/share/saydate/*
              sound files needed to say the date.

       /usr/bin/au2raw
              skript  to  convert  files  from au to raw for own recordings of
              saydate’s voice.

BUGS

       Only English files are supported.  Probably a few more.

SEE ALSO:

       au2raw(1), saytime(1).

Word-Wide-Web:

       http://webhome.idirect.com/~tekatch/anthony/saydate

AUTHOR

       Anthony Tekatch <tekatch@idirect.com>

       This manual page was written by Dr.  Guenter  Bechly  <GBechly@gmx.de>,
       for  the  Debian  GNU/Linux  system  (but may be used by others). It is
       distributed under the GPL just like saydate itself.