In order to provide a remedy to this miserable situation I created a personal package archive (ppa) that contains a modified version of util-linux providing ddate for Ubuntu 12.04. To enable it, enter the commands
$ ddate
Today is Boomtime, the 62nd day of Chaos in the YOLD 3179
Future changes to the original util-linux package will be merged into the ppa. In order to revert to the original version of util-linux, I recommend the use of ppa-purge
In order to provide a remedy to this miserable situation I created a personal package archive (ppa) that contains a modified version of util-linux providing ddate for Ubuntu 12.04. To enable it, enter the commands
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnebehay/ util-linux
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
and voilà:
$ ddate
Today is Boomtime, the 62nd day of Chaos in the YOLD 3179
Future changes to the original util-linux package will be merged into the ppa. In order to revert to the original version of util-linux, I recommend the use of ppa-purge
$ sudo apt-get install ppa-purge util-linux
$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnebehay/