date
Set or display the system date. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/date.
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Display the current date using the default locale's format:
date +%c
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Display the current date in UTC, using the ISO 8601 format:
date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%Z
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Display the current date as a Unix timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch):
date +%s
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Convert a date specified as a Unix timestamp to the default format:
date -d @{{1473305798}}
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Convert a given date to the Unix timestamp format:
date -d "{{2018-09-01 00:00}}" +%s --utc
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Display the current date using the RFC-3339 format (
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss TZ
):
date --rfc-3339=s
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Set the current date using the format
MMDDhhmmYYYY.ss
(YYYY
and.ss
are optional):
date {{093023592021.59}}
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Display the current ISO week number:
date +%V
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