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date

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Set or display the system date.

Options (2)

-u, --utcboolean

Display the current date in UTC, using the ISO 8601 format

Example: date {{[-u|--utc]}} +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%Z

-d, --dateboolean

Convert a date specified as a Unix timestamp to the default format

Example: date {{[-d|--date]}} @{{1473305798}}

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