date
Set or display the system date. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/date.
- Display the current date using the default locale's format:
date +"%c"
- Display the current date in UTC and ISO 8601 format:
date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"
- Display the current date as a Unix timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch):
date +%s
- Display a specific date (represented as a Unix timestamp) using the default format:
date -d @1473305798
- Convert a specific date to the Unix timestamp format:
date -d "{{2018-09-01 00:00}}" +%s --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}}
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