rh / now

Shows the current date and/or time according to a given format

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.