NAME

       pmdate - display an offset date


SYNOPSIS

       pmdate [ offset ... ] format


DESCRIPTION

       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
       M      minutes
       H      hours
       d      days
       m      months
       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


PCP ENVIRONMENT

       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).


SEE ALSO

       date(1), strftime(3), pcp.conf(4) and pcp.env(4).


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