Spotted at Lobsters is a thread about a stackoverflow question on man; why does running "man -w" report "gimme gimme gimme" when run at 00:30?
This gets this response:
Pretty much the whole story is in the commit. The maintainer of man is a good friend of mine, and one day six years ago I jokingly said to him that if you invoke man after midnight it should print "gimme gimme gimme", because of the Abba song called "Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight":
Well, he did actually put it in. A few people were amused to discover it, and we mostly forgot about it until today.
The commit in question, and more commentary over at HackerNews.
Anyone know of other good easter eggs that have cropped up unexpectedly and caught users out?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @01:34PM (1 child)
In the name of gender equality, future Linux distribution will not only come with man, but also with woman.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 27 2017, @07:04PM
Emacs already does :)