.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH TRYTIME 1 "September 2000" "rrdtool" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME trytime \- a program to experiment with at-style time specifications as implemented by rrdtool .SH SYNOPSIS .B trytime [--start=\fItimespec\fP] [--end=\fItimespec\fP] .br .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B 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 \fBcontrib/trytime/README\fP from the rrdtool distribution, which can be found in \fB/usr/share/rrdtool/trytime/README\fP on Debian systems. .PP .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB\fP and .\" \fI\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics, .\" respectively. \fBtrytime\fP 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 \fBAT-STYLE TIME SPECIFICATION\fP section in the .BR rrdfetch (1) documentation. .SH AUTHOR This manual page was written by Matt Zimmerman , for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).