netbsd-help: way to force `date` to format in lower case only

Subject: way to force `date` to format in lower case only
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: henry nelson <netb@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/12/2003 10:53:49

I'd like to force `date +%h` to output "feb" rather than "Feb".  Is there
an option to `date' that will do that?  If not, what would be the absolutely
least cpu/memory-expensive way to do the conversion?  (Presently I'm piping
through `tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"`.)  TIA

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henry nelson