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<pre lang='und' xml:lang='und'>  pom - display the phase of the moon</pre>

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<pre lang='und' xml:lang='und'>  pom [-d] [-e] [[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]]</pre>

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<p>The pom utility displays the current phase of the moon. This is useful for selecting software completion target dates, predicting managerial behavior, or determining thoth&#39;s current mood. :)</p>

<p>Pom will display the current moon phase, unless a new time is specified on the command line. The parameter&#39;s format is similar to the canonical representation used by date(1).</p>

<p>Pom has two modes: &#34;standard&#34; and &#34;enhanced&#34;. Standard mode presents a brief description of the moon&#39;s phase. It is the default. Enhanced mode shows the phase&#39;s date and time, the brief description, and an ASCII art representation of the moon&#39;s phase.</p>

<p>Current options:</p>

<pre lang='und' xml:lang='und'>  -d    Enable debugging.  This calculates phase information every
        hour for a month.

  -e    Enable enhanced mode.  Turns on the ASCII art feature.</pre>

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<pre lang='und' xml:lang='und'>  date(1)</pre>

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>BUGS</a></h1>

<p>Times must be within the range of the Unix epoch.</p>

<p>The local timezone and coordinates are not considered.</p>

<p>Day validation does not consider the current month, or leap days.</p>

<p>The default character cell aspect ratio is likely to be wrong.</p>

<p>There is some jitter in the current calculations. It may only be noticeable while debugging.</p>

<p>The calculations in this version are a few percent different from the original pom.</p>

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<p>A lot of the documentation was cribbed from the OpenBSD Reference Manual.</p>

<p>The moon phase calculations were ported from pcal, which is available from &#60;ftp://www.decus.org/pub/lib/vs0174/pcal/&#62;.</p>

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>AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT</a></h1>

<p>Pom is Copyright 1999 Rocco Caputo &#60;troc@netrus.net&#62;. All rights reserved. Pom is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.</p>

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