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date − print or set the system date and time
date
[OPTION]... [+FORMAT] 
date [-u|--utc|--universal]
[MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
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
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 −−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:
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 %%  | 
 a literal %  | ||
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 %a  | 
 locale’s abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)  | ||
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 %A  | 
 locale’s full weekday name, variable length (Sunday..Saturday)  | ||
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 %b  | 
 locale’s abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)  | ||
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 %B  | 
 locale’s full month name, variable length (January..December)  | ||
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 %c  | 
 locale’s date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989)  | ||
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 %d  | 
 day of month (01..31)  | ||
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 %D  | 
 date (mm/dd/yy)  | ||
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 %e  | 
 day of month, blank padded ( 1..31)  | ||
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 %h  | 
 same as %b  | ||
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 %H  | 
 hour (00..23)  | ||
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 %I  | 
 hour (01..12)  | ||
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 %j  | 
 day of year (001..366)  | ||
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 %k  | 
 hour ( 0..23)  | ||
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 %l  | 
 hour ( 1..12)  | ||
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 %m  | 
 month (01..12)  | ||
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 %M  | 
 minute (00..59)  | ||
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 %n  | 
 a newline  | ||
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 %p  | 
 locale’s AM or PM  | ||
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 %r  | 
 time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M)  | ||
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 %s  | 
 seconds since ’00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC’ (a GNU extension)  | ||
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 %S  | 
 second (00..60)  | ||
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 %t  | 
 a horizontal tab  | ||
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 %T  | 
 time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)  | ||
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 %U  | 
 week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)  | ||
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 %V  | 
 week number of year with Monday as first day of week (01..53)  | ||
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 %w  | 
 day of week (0..6); 0 represents Sunday  | ||
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 %W  | 
 week number of year with Monday as first day of week (00..53)  | ||
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 %x  | 
 locale’s date representation (mm/dd/yy)  | ||
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 %X  | 
 locale’s time representation (%H:%M:%S)  | ||
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 %y  | 
 last two digits of year (00..99)  | ||
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 %Y  | 
 year (1970...)  | ||
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 %z  | 
 RFC-822 style numeric timezone (-0500) (a nonstandard extension)  | ||
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 %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
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 TZ  | 
 Specifies the timezone, unless overridden by command line parameters. If neither is specified, the setting from /etc/localtime is used.  | 
Written by David MacKenzie.
Report bugs to <bug-sh-utils@gnu.org>.
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.
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.
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