section_path: Implementations
section_name: Implementations
paragraph_text: Implementations
  
  ddate is a program that prints the current date in the Discordian calendar. It was a part of the util-linux package containing basic system utilities. As such, it had been included at least since 1994 in nearly all Linux distributions. In August 2011 however, one of the maintainers of util-linux made ddate optional, and by default omitted. In October 2012, ddate was completely removed from util-linux. The ddate program now has an upstream source. There was some controversy, but in the end, anyone wishing to reintroduce ddate to a distribution will have to create a separate package based on the new upstream. This has been done for Debian, FreeBSD, Fedora Linux, and Gentoo Linux for example.
  
  There are many other programs with similar functionality, such as Hodge Podge, an Android widget. Discordian-calendar is an implementation using Java 8's date and time classes.