date
date - Print or set the system date and time
Description:
Same as the Unix date command. Display the current time in the given format or set the system date.
Syntax:
date {option}... {MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]} { '+format' }
Parameters:
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| -d | Print the specified date. |
| -R | Output RFC-2822 compliant date string. |
| -s | Set the current date to the specified date. |
| -u | Print or set Coordinated Universal Time. |
| format | Choose the output of date. |
| %% | 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) |
| %C | century (year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer) [00-99] |
| %d | day of month (01..31) |
| %D | date (mm/dd/yy) |
| %e | day of month, blank padded ( 1..31) |
| %F | same as %Y-%m-%d |
| %g | the 2-digit year corresponding to the %V week number |
| %G | the 4-digit year corresponding to the %V week number |
| %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 |
| %N | nanoseconds (000000000..999999999) |
| %p | locale's upper case AM or PM indicator (blank in many locales) |
| %P | locale's lower case am or pm indicator (blank in many locales) |
| %r | time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M) |
| %R | time, 24-hour (hh:mm) |
| %s | seconds since `00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC' (a GNU extension) |
| %S | second (00..60); the 60 is necessary to accommodate a leap second |
| %t | a horizontal tab |
| %T | time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss) |
| %u | day of week (1..7); 1 represents Monday |
| %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-2822 style numeric timezone (-0500) (a nonstandard extension) |
| %Z | time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is determinable |
Example:
set the date to December 1st 2006,15:48PM : date -s 120115482006
show the current day only : date '+%d'
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