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One of the little pleasures I had building a Linux From Scratch install was discovering that the GNU ddate [1] program was installed on most Linux distributions
by krrrh 9y ago
One of the little pleasures I had building a Linux From Scratch install was discovering that the GNU ddate [1] program was installed on most Linux distributions as a standard utility. Not sure if this is still the case, but it was funny to observe an inside joke make its way into so many internet servers.
[1] converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates https://linux.die.net/man/1/ddate https://linux.die.net/man/1/ddate
- khedoros1 9y agoWe use machines of many different architectures at work. At one point, I compiled ddate for every machine we had, and wrote a script that would select the correct version of the binary for the current platform, so that I could use it in my bashrc. Just checked on the Debian and Mint systems I've got here: not installed by default.
- krrrh 9y agoLooks like the con purged it from util-linux in 2002. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=149321 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=149321
- khedoros1 9y agoI think that about the time I first head about Discordianism, I was running Slackware (and I probably found it through the connect with Church of the SubGenius). That was in 2003 or 2004, so I'm guessing that Slackware probably continued including it past the time that Debian did.