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+DATE(1) User Commands DATE(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
+
+ --iso-8601[=TIMESPEC] output date/time in ISO 8601 for-
+ mat.
+ TIMESPEC=`date' for date only (the default),
+ `hours', `minutes', `seconds', or `ns' for date
+ and time to the indicated precision.
+
+ -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 (Sun-
+ day..Saturday)
+
+ %b locale's abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
+
+ %B locale's full month name, variable length (Jan-
+ uary..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 accommo-
+ date 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 non-
+ standard 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 `_' (under-
+ score) pad the field with spaces
+
+AUTHOR
+ Written by David MacKenzie.
+
+REPORTING BUGS
+ Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
+
+COPYRIGHT
+ Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ This is free software; see the source for copying condi-
+ tions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABIL-
+ ITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+
+SEE ALSO
+ The full documentation for date is maintained as a Tex-
+ info manual. If the info and date programs are properly
+ installed at your site, the command
+
+ info date
+
+ should give you access to the complete manual.
+
+
+
+date 5.3.0 November 2004 DATE(1)