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From: daved@physiol.su.oz (Dave Davey)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Time of Day in troff (and .TH in LaTeX)
Summary: fdate not date ?
Message-ID: <581@physiol.su.oz>
Date: 11 Apr 89 01:31:55 GMT
References: <16810@cos.com> <512@elan.UUCP>
Organization: Physiology Dept., Univ. of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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In article <512@elan.UUCP>, kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) writes:
> From article <16810@cos.com>, by duc@cos.com (Duc Kim Nguyen):
> > 
> > (1) troff: how do I get time of day ?  Similar to to get date from
> Try this!
> 
> 	.sy /bin/date +".nr hr %H%n.nr mi %M%n.nr se %S" > /tmp/date\n($$
> 	.so /tmp/date\n($$
> 	.sy rm -f /tmp/date\n($$

This will only work if your date program accepts the format argument,
and will not be the case for most standard /bin/date programs.  You might look
for fdate.