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date

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

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