NAME

edate -- print date and time in Amharic or Tigrigna with locale options

FORMAT

edate.pl [options]

SYNOPSIS

edate.pl -c -q -a -y -l tir

Please see the help

edate.pl -?

for short usage info.

DESCRIPTION

edate.pl is the Perl analogue of "edate" which comes with the LibEth library. edate.pl also requires LibEth and the Ethiopic:: module which is itself an interface to LibEth. edate.pl does not yet fully emulate the capabilities of LibEth edate but that is an eventual goal.

OPTIONS

Note: edate.pl -? will present the same information with examples in UTF8 (which chokes under standard man output).

-a

Format with Amete Mehret.

-/

Format with '/' between Amete Mehret (goes with -a).

-c

Format with Ethiopic comma after day of week.

-d

Format day of month with Ethiopic numerals.

-h

Format with Ethiopian hour system.

-l [lang]

Change default language as per: -l amh or -l tir .

-n

Format with Ethiopic wordspace.

-q

Format with word "day" after day of month.

-y

Format year with Ethiopic numerals.

-?

Print help message and quit.

SEE ALSO

perl(1). Et(3). http://libeth.netpedia.net

AUTHOR

Daniel Yacob, LibEth@EthiopiaOnline.Net