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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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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 +%cDisplay the current date in UTC and ISO 8601 format:
date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZDisplay the current date as a Unix timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch):
date +%sDisplay 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 +%cDisplay the current date in UTC and ISO 8601 format
date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZDisplay the current date as a Unix timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch)
date +%sDisplay 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
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