pmdate − display an offset date
pmdate [ offset ... ] format
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 |
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M |
minutes |
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H |
hours |
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d |
days |
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m |
months |
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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
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).
date(1), strftime(3), pcp.conf(4) and pcp.env(4).