Mdate++ 1.3.2  Copyright(c) 1998-2002 Sean Dwyer <ewe2@can.org.au>
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Mdate++ is really Mdate 1.2.8 rewritten in C++, folding in libmdate 0.0.5, and
missing autoconf and i18n facilities. It is distributed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License version 2.

This version conforms to the GNU getopt command-line conventions (with help
from gengetopt) and introduces new correlation options. More features will be
added as requested, now that the parser is actually sane.

For those new to the mdate utilities, Mdate++ outputs simple Mayan dates for
casual use or for use by other programs (e.g. mailers and editors). There are
very few freely-available Mayan date programs which concerned me enough to
attempt one.

This release is very basic, as changes to the autoconf/automake/libtool and
related i18n systems have made previous versions difficult and unstable.

The older Mdate is still at http://mdate.sourceforge.net/ but has been
moribund for the last year or so, and I intend to overhaul it with this series
of mdates in the near future.

Installation
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Check the config.h for any defines you may need to change. Please READ the
comments in there, they will help I hope. Basically, if you're running a BSD,
or GNU related system, you can pretty much leave things as they are. I develop
on a Debian woody x86 system which is as compatible as they come.

Just type make, and put the executable wherever you like. Users of previous
mdates may like to rename/remove older versions. Put mdate.1 in your favourite
man1 directory.

It is assumed that you're using GNU C/C++ and GNU Make; unfortunately I have
no access to different OS's and architectures. You are encouraged to add a
target or defines so that others might benefit and enjoy Mdate.


Suggested Usage
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Something nice and terse for an email line might be:

mdate -p | awk '{print $7,$8,$9,$10,$11}'

which gives you:

12.19.09.00.11 07 Chuen 09 Kayab
