pmdate (1) Linux Manual Page
NAME
pmdate – display an offset date
SYNOPSIS
pmdate [ offset … ] format
DESCRIPTION
pmdate displays the current date and/or time, with an optional offset.
An offset is specified with a leading sign (“+” or “-”), followed by an integer value, followed by one of the following “scale” specifiers;
- S
- seconds
- M
- minutes
- H
- hours
- d
- days
- m
- months
- y
- years
The output format follows the same rules as for date(1) and strftime(3).
For example, the following will display the date a week ago as DDMMYYYY; pmdate -7d %d%m%Y
PCP ENVIRONMENT
Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the file and directory names used by PCP. On each installation, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables. The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5).
SEE ALSO
date(1), strftime(3), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).