Now
DESCRIPTION
Now is a command-line application that outputs the current date and/or time according to a given (.NET) format. The output is always a single line, so it can easily be used in batch scripts. Now is also a handy tool to learn to use .NET's way of formatting dates and times. The culture can also be set.
Usage: now [format] <culture>
Now 1.0. Copyright (c) 2008 Richard Hubers
http://www.codeplex.com/now
Examples:
now D en-US Monday, December 01, 2008
now D en-GB 01 December 2008
now D nl-NL maandag 1 december 2008
now d 12/1/2008
now dd 01
now dddd Monday
now F Monday, December 01, 2008 8:40:59 PM
now M December 01
now MM 12
now MMMM December
now r Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:40:59 GMT
now T 8:40:59 PM
now u 2008-12-01 20:40:59Z
now U Monday, December 01, 2008 7:40:59 PM
now H:mm:ss.fff 20:40:59.292
now "yyyy-MM-dd (HH:mm:ss)" 2008-12-01 (20:40:59)
When invoked with 1 argument, the argument is used as the format; with 2 arguments given, the second argument is considered a culture, e.g. 'en-US' or 'nl-NL'.
With normal output, 0 is returned as the exit code for the application. When an error is encountered 1 is returned, while -1 is returned when Now is invoked without arguments.
CODE
View the code:
http://github.com/rh/now/
Get the code:
$ git clone git://github.com/rh/now.git
LICENSE
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Richard Hubers
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.