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(sh-utils.info)Date directives


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Date directives
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   `date' directives related to dates.

`%a'
     locale's abbreviated weekday name (Sun...Sat)

`%A'
     locale's full weekday name, variable length (Sunday...Saturday)

`%b'
     locale's abbreviated month name (Jan...Dec)

`%B'
     locale's full month name, variable length (January...December)

`%c'
     locale's date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989)

`%d'
     day of month (01...31)

`%D'
     date (mm/dd/yy)

`%h'
     same as %b

`%j'
     day of year (001...366)

`%m'
     month (01...12)

`%U'
     week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00...53).
     Days in a new year preceding the first Sunday are in week zero.

`%V'
     week number of year with Monday as first day of the week as a
     decimal (01...53). If the week containing January 1 has four or
     more days in the new year, then it is considered week 1;
     otherwise, it is week 53 of the previous year, and the next week
     is week 1. (See the ISO 8601: 1988 standard.)

`%w'
     day of week (0...6) with 0 corresponding to Sunday

`%W'
     week number of year with Monday as first day of week (00...53).
     Days in a new year preceding the first Monday are in week zero.

`%x'
     locale's date representation (mm/dd/yy)

`%y'
     last two digits of year (00...99)

`%Y'
     year (1970....)


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