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NAME

       sdate - never ending September date

SYNOPSIS

       sdate [-e|--epoch yyyy-mm] [-l|--lib library] [--] [command]

DESCRIPTION

       sdate  runs  a  command  in  an  environment  wherein it wraps the libc
       localtime() and gmtime() calls such  that  the  program  will  use  the
       eternal  September date.  The wrapper functions are in a shared library
       /usr/lib/libsdate/libsdate.so* which is loaded through  the  LD_PRELOAD
       mechanism of the dynamic loader. (See ld.so(8))

OPTIONS

       -e yyyy-mm, --epoch yyyy-mm
              Specify an alternative epoch, default is 1993-09.

       -l library, --lib library
              Specify an alternative wrapper library.

       [--] command
              Any  command  you want to be ran. Use ‘--’ if in the command you
              have other options that may confuse sdate’s option parsing.

       -h     Display help.

       -v     Display version.

FILES

       /usr/lib/libsdate/*  The  shared   library   containing   the   wrapper
       functions.

ENVIRONMENT

       LD_PRELOAD

LIMITATIONS

       Library versions
              Every  command  executed  within sdate needs to be linked to the
              same version of the C library as sdate itself.

SEE ALSO

       http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/September-that-never-ended.html

       http://www.df7cb.de/projects/sdate/

COPYING

       sdate is distributed under the GNU General Public License.  (GPL v2  or
       later).

AUTHORS

       Christoph Berg
              <cb@df7cb.de>