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DATE
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NAME
date - print or set the system date and time
SYNOPSIS
date
[OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
date
[-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
DESCRIPTION
Display the current time in the given FORMAT, or set the system date.
- -d, --date=STRING
-
display time described by STRING, not `now'
- -f, --file=DATEFILE
-
like --date once for each line of DATEFILE
- -I, --iso-8601[=TIMESPEC] output an ISO-8601 compliant date/time string.
-
TIMESPEC=`date' (or missing) for date only,
`hours', `minutes', or `seconds' for date and
time to the indicated precision.
- -r, --reference=FILE
-
display the last modification time of FILE
- -R, --rfc-822
-
output RFC-822 compliant date string
- -s, --set=STRING
-
set time described by STRING
- -u, --utc, --universal
-
print or set Coordinated Universal Time
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
FORMAT controls the output. The only valid option for the second form
specifies Coordinated Universal Time. Interpreted sequences are:
- %%
-
a literal %
- %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)
- %e
-
day of month, blank padded ( 1..31)
- %h
-
same as %b
- %H
-
hour (00..23)
- %I
-
hour (01..12)
- %j
-
day of year (001..366)
- %k
-
hour ( 0..23)
- %l
-
hour ( 1..12)
- %m
-
month (01..12)
- %M
-
minute (00..59)
- %n
-
a newline
- %p
-
locale's AM or PM
- %r
-
time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M)
- %s
-
seconds since `00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC' (a GNU extension)
- %S
-
second (00..60)
- %t
-
a horizontal tab
- %T
-
time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)
- %U
-
week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
- %V
-
week number of year with Monday as first day of week (01..53)
- %w
-
day of week (0..6); 0 represents Sunday
- %W
-
week number of year with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
- %x
-
locale's date representation (mm/dd/yy)
- %X
-
locale's time representation (%H:%M:%S)
- %y
-
last two digits of year (00..99)
- %Y
-
year (1970...)
- %z
-
RFC-822 style numeric timezone (-0500) (a nonstandard extension)
- %Z
-
time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is determinable
By default, date pads numeric fields with zeroes. GNU date recognizes
the following modifiers between `%' and a numeric directive.
-
`-' (hyphen) do not pad the field
`_' (underscore) pad the field with spaces
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-sh-utils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for
date
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
date
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info date
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- AUTHOR
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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- SEE ALSO
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