date(1)

print or set the system date and time

Package: coreutil, added for amigaux.

This package comes with the extra set; without it, date is the original one: see date-original(1).

NAME

date - print or set the system date and time

SYNOPSIS

date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]

DESCRIPTION

Display the current time in the given FORMAT, or set the system date.

-d, --date=STRING: display time described by STRING, not `now'
-f, --file=DATEFILE: like --date once for each line of DATEFILE
-ITIMESPEC, --iso-8601[=TIMESPEC]: output date/time in ISO 8601 format. TIMESPEC=`date' for date only, `hours', `minutes', or `seconds' for date and time to the indicated precision. --iso-8601 without TIMESPEC defaults to `date'.
-r, --reference=FILE: display the last modification time of FILE
-R, --rfc-2822: output RFC-2822 compliant date string
-s, --set=STRING: set time described by STRING
-u, --utc, --universal: print or set Coordinated Universal Time
--help: display this help and exit
--version: output version information and exit

FORMAT controls the output. The only valid option for the second form specifies Coordinated Universal Time. Interpreted sequences are:

%%: a literal %
%a: locale's abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)
%A: locale's full weekday name, variable length (Sunday..Saturday)
%b: locale's abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
%B: locale's full month name, variable length (January..December)
%c: locale's date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989)
%C: century (year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer) [00-99]
%d: day of month (01..31)
%D: date (mm/dd/yy)
%e: day of month, blank padded ( 1..31)
%F: same as %Y-%m-%d
%g: the 2-digit year corresponding to the %V week number
%G: the 4-digit year corresponding to the %V week number
%h: same as %b
%H: hour (00..23)
%I: hour (01..12)
%j: day of year (001..366)
%k: hour ( 0..23)
%l: hour ( 1..12)
%m: month (01..12)
%M: minute (00..59)
%n: a newline
%N: nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)
%p: locale's upper case AM or PM indicator (blank in many locales)
%P: locale's lower case am or pm indicator (blank in many locales)
%r: time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M)
%R: time, 24-hour (hh:mm)
%s: seconds since `00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC' (a GNU extension)
%S: second (00..60); the 60 is necessary to accommodate a leap second
%t: a horizontal tab
%T: time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)
%u: day of week (1..7); 1 represents Monday
%U: week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
%V: week number of year with Monday as first day of week (01..53)
%w: day of week (0..6); 0 represents Sunday
%W: week number of year with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
%x: locale's date representation (mm/dd/yy)
%X: locale's time representation (%H:%M:%S)
%y: last two digits of year (00..99)
%Y: year (1970...)
%z: RFC-2822 style numeric timezone (-0500) (a nonstandard extension)
%Z: time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is determinable

By default, date pads numeric fields with zeroes. GNU date recognizes the following modifiers between `%' and a numeric directive.

: `-' (hyphen) do not pad the field `_' (underscore) pad the field with spaces

AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.