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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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Problem

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 +%c


Display the current date in UTC, using the ISO 8601 format:
date {{[-u|--utc]}} +%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|--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 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

Code Snippets

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|--utc]}} +%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|--date]}} @{{1473305798}}

Convert a given date to the Unix timestamp format

date {{[-d|--date]}} "{{2018-09-01 00:00}}" +%s {{[-u|--utc]}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/date

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