Info: (coreutils) date invocation

coreutils: date invocation

 
 21.1 ‘date’: Print or set system date and time
 ==============================================
 
 Synopses:
 
      date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
      date [-u|--utc|--universal] [ MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss] ]
 
    Invoking ‘date’ with no FORMAT argument is equivalent to invoking it
 with a default format that depends on the ‘LC_TIME’ locale category.  In
 the default C locale, this format is ‘'+%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y'’, so
 the output looks like ‘Thu Mar  3 13:47:51 PST 2005’.
 
    Normally, ‘date’ uses the time zone rules indicated by the ‘TZ’
 environment variable, or the system default rules if ‘TZ’ is not set.
 ⇒Specifying the Time Zone with ‘TZ’ (libc)TZ Variable.
 
    If given an argument that starts with a ‘+’, ‘date’ prints the
 current date and time (or the date and time specified by the ‘--date’
 option, see below) in the format defined by that argument, which is
 similar to that of the ‘strftime’ function.  Except for conversion
 specifiers, which start with ‘%’, characters in the format string are
 printed unchanged.  The conversion specifiers are described below.
 
    An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value
 indicates failure.

 
· Time conversion specifiers     %[HIklMNpPrRsSTXzZ]
· Date conversion specifiers     %[aAbBcCdDeFgGhjmuUVwWxyY]
· Literal conversion specifiers  %[%nt]
· Padding and other flags        Pad with zeros, spaces, etc.
· Setting the time               Changing the system clock.
· Options for date               Instead of the current time.
· Date input formats             Specifying date strings.
· Examples of date               Examples.

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