ddate is a ‘fun’ program to display the date in Discordian calendar.
ddate prints the date in Discordian date format.
Example:
Today is Setting Orange, the 14th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3178
Unfortunately, ddate was disabled / removed from util-linux.
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If you would like to use ddate, it is rather trivial to compile.
Download the latest util-linux (2.21.2 at the time of this post)
Extract the archive:
tar xzvf util-linux-2.21.2.tar.gz
If needed, install gcc and ncurses headers (ncurses-devel on Fedora or libncurses5-dev on Ubuntu)
#Fedora
sudo yum install gcc ncurses-devel
#Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install gcc libncurses5-dev
Compile and install ddate
cd util-linux-2.21.2
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-ddate
cd misc-utils
make ddate
sudo cp ddate /usr/local/bin