76 lines
2.8 KiB
Groff
76 lines
2.8 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: pom.6,v 1.11 2002/09/26 18:32:03 wiz Exp $
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.\" @(#)pom.6 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
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.Dd January 9, 1999
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.Dt POM 6
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm pom
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.Nd display the phase of the moon
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility displays the current phase of the moon.
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Useful for selecting software completion target dates and predicting
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managerial behavior.
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]
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.It Ar [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]
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Display the phase of the moon for a given time.
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The format is similar to the canonical representation used by
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.Xr date 1 .
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr date 1
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.Sh AUTHOR
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.Nm
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was written by
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.An Keith E. Brandt .
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.Sh BUGS
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Times must be within range of the
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.Ux
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epoch.
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.Pp
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This program does not allow for the difference between the TDT and
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UTC timescales (about one minute at the time of writing).
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.Sh ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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This program is based on algorithms from
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.%B Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator, Third Edition
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by Peter Duffett-Smith
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.Aq pjds@mrao.cam.ac.uk .
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