pom(6)

pom6

Display the phase of the moon

Usage

pom [[[[[[cc] yy] mm] dd] HH]]

Overview

The pom utility displays the current phase of the moon. Useful for selecting software completion target dates and predicting managerial behavior.

[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]

Display the phase of the moon for a given time. The format is similar to the canonical representation used by date(1).

Acknowledgements

This program is based on algorithms from by Peter Duffett-Smith ⟨[email protected]⟩.

Releases

16 releases since Debian 1.3 (Bo); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 1.3
  2. 2.0
  3. 2.1
  4. 2.2
  5. 3.0
  6. 3.1–13

Author

pom was written by Keith E. Brandt.

Bugs

Times must be within range of the UNIX epoch.

This program does not allow for the difference between the TDT and UTC timescales (about one minute at the time of writing).

From bsdgames 2.17-35 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.