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date — Set or display the system date. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/date.1.ht

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Problem

How to use the date command: Set or display the system date. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/date.1.html>.

Solution

date — Set or display the system date. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/date.1.html>.

Display the current date using the default locale's format:
date +%c


Display the current date in UTC and ISO 8601 format:
date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ


Display the current date as a Unix timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch):
date +%s


Display a specific date (represented as a Unix timestamp) using the default format:
date -r {{1473305798}}


Display a date relative to the current date using the default format:
date -v {{+1d}} -v {{-20m}}

Code Snippets

Display the current date using the default locale's format

date +%c

Display the current date in UTC and ISO 8601 format

date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ

Display the current date as a Unix timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch)

date +%s

Display a specific date (represented as a Unix timestamp) using the default format

date -r {{1473305798}}

Display a date relative to the current date using the default format

date -v {{+1d}} -v {{-20m}}

Context

tldr-pages: osx/date

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