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date — Set or display the system date. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/htm
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How to use the
date command: Set or display the system date. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/date-invocation.html>.Solution
date — Set or display the system date. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/date-invocation.html>.Display the current date using the default locale's format:
date +%cDisplay the current date in UTC, using the ISO 8601 format:
date {{[-u|--utc]}} +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%ZDisplay the current date as a Unix timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch):
date +%sConvert a date specified as a Unix timestamp to the default format:
date {{[-d|--date]}} @{{1473305798}}Convert a given date to the Unix timestamp format:
date {{[-d|--date]}} "{{2018-09-01 00:00}}" +%s {{[-u|--utc]}}Display the current date using the RFC-3339 format (
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss TZ):date --rfc-3339 sSet the current date using the format
MMDDhhmmYYYY.ss (YYYY and .ss are optional):date {{093023592021.59}}Display the current ISO week number:
date +%VCode Snippets
Display the current date using the default locale's format
date +%cDisplay the current date in UTC, using the ISO 8601 format
date {{[-u|--utc]}} +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%ZDisplay the current date as a Unix timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch)
date +%sConvert a date specified as a Unix timestamp to the default format
date {{[-d|--date]}} @{{1473305798}}Convert a given date to the Unix timestamp format
date {{[-d|--date]}} "{{2018-09-01 00:00}}" +%s {{[-u|--utc]}}Context
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