---
name: "trytime"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "rrdtool"
version: "1.0.49-1"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/trytime"
---

# trytime(1)

a program to experiment with at-style time specifications as implemented by rrdtool

## NAME

trytime - a program to experiment with at-style time specifications as implemented by rrdtool

## SYNOPSIS

**trytime** \[--start=*timespec*\] \[--end=*timespec*\]\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **trytime** command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. It was derived from the file **contrib/trytime/README** from the rrdtool distribution, which can be found in **/usr/share/rrdtool/trytime/README** on Debian systems.

**trytime** is a small program that allows you to play with at-style time specifications without actually bothering any of the rrd databases.  It takes either single at-style specification or two of those (for start and end time, just like rrdtool fetch or graph do) and reports what it thinks of it. The diagnostic is as close as possible to that of rrdtool compiled for at-style time specification support.

To learn what's possible with at-style time specifications, see the **AT-STYLE TIME SPECIFICATION** section in the [**rrdfetch**(1)](/rrdfetch/1.md) documentation.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Matt Zimmerman \<mdz@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).