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# date
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2016-01-07 17:31:27 +00:00
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> Set or display the system date.
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2014-03-02 21:25:49 +00:00
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2016-10-06 12:05:12 +01:00
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- Display the current date using the default locale's format:
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2014-03-02 21:25:49 +00:00
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`date +"%c"`
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2016-10-06 12:05:12 +01:00
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- Display the current date in UTC and ISO 8601 format:
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2014-03-02 21:25:49 +00:00
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2015-12-05 20:20:22 +00:00
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`date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"`
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2016-09-08 04:46:34 +01:00
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2016-10-06 12:05:12 +01:00
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- Display the current date as a Unix timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch):
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2016-09-08 04:46:34 +01:00
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`date +%s`
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2016-10-06 12:05:12 +01:00
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- Display a specific date (represented as a Unix timestamp) using the default format:
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2016-09-08 04:46:34 +01:00
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`date -d @1473305798`
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2019-01-11 10:12:29 +00:00
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- Convert a specific date to the Unix timestamp format:
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`date -d "{{2018-09-01 00:00}}" +%s --utc`
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2020-03-28 01:47:55 +00:00
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- Display the current date using the RFC-3339 format (`YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss TZ`):
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`date --rfc-3339=s`
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