Today's date

[smith at mclinux.com (Jeffry Smith)]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Derek Martin wrote:

>   I just discovered something of curiosity... I wanted to find out what
> time it was, so I typed date on my system, only I made a type-o. Much to
> my surprise, I still got an answer:
> 
>   [root at martin bin]
>   # ddate
>   Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 53rd day of Confusion in the YOLD 3166
> 
> Apparently there still are people out there who tell time using the
> calendar of Lord Dimwit Flathead!  
> 
> 

Can't be GNU thing, there's a man(1) page:

DDATE(1)             Emperor Norton Utilities            DDATE(1)

NAME
       ddate - converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates

SYNOPSIS
       ddate [+format] [date]

DESCRIPTION
      ddate prints the date in Discordian date format.

    If called with no arguments, ddate will get the current system
date, convert this to the Discordian date format and
print this on  the  standard output.  Alterna)B?
tively,  a  Gregorian date may be specified on the
command line, in the form of a numerical day, month
and year.

Can't find the source for it, though.  That worries me a bit.

jeff
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