Today's date

[Howard S Shubs]

>Today, hshubs at mindspring.com gleaned this insight:
>
>> >Apparently there still are people out there who tell time using the
>> calendar of Lord Dimwit Flathead!
>>
>> Now try
>>
>> $ man ddate
>>
>> ...and read of Emperor Norton Utilities.
>
>Tried it, no such info...  My man page is 6656 lines long, most of which
>are completely empty. Methinks this is a joke I did not get...

Sounds like you got a broken man page.  The first line of the page 
says ddate is one of Emperor Norton Utilities.  See 
http://www.discordia.org/~keeper/norton.html for details.
Howard S Shubs                                      The Denim Adept
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