TRYTIME(1)

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) 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).