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- DATE(1L) DATE(1L)
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- NAME
- date - print or set the system date and time
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- SYNOPSIS
- date [-u] [-s new-date] [+FORMAT] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
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- DESCRIPTION
- This manual page documents the GNU version of date. date
- with no arguments prints the current time and date (in the
- format of the `%c' directive described below). If given an
- argument that starts with a `+', it prints the current time
- and date in a format controlled by that argument, which has
- the same format as the format string passed to the
- `strftime' function. Except for directives that start with
- `%', characters in that string are printed unchanged.
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- The directives are:
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- % a literal %
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- n a newline
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- t a horizontal tab
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- Time fields:
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- %H hour (00..23)
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- %I hour (00..12)
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- %M minute (00..59)
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- %p locale's AM or PM
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- %r time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M)
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- %S second (00..61)
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- %T time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)
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- %X locale's time representation (%H:%M:%S)
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- %Z time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is
- determinable
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- Date fields:
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- %a locale's abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)
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- %A locale's full weekday name, variable length
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- %b locale's abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
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- %B locale's full month name, variable length
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- %c locale's date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989)
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- %d day of month (01..31)
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- %D date (mm/dd/yy)
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- %h same as %b
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- %j day of year (001..366)
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- %m month (01..12)
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- %U week number of year with Sunday as first day of week
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- %w day of week (0..6)
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- %W week number of year with Monday as first day of week
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- %x locale's date representation (mm/dd/yy)
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- %y last two digits of year (00..99)
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- %Y year (1970...)
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- If given an argument that does not start with `+', date sets
- the system clock to the time and date specified by that
- argument. The argument must consist entirely of digits,
- which have the following meaning:
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- MM month
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- DD day within month
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- hh hour
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- mm minute
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- CC first two digits of year (optional)
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- YY last two digits of year (optional)
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- ss second (optional)
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- Only the superuser can set the system clock.
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- OPTIONS
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- -_s _n_e_w-_d_a_t_e
- Set the time and date to _n_e_w-_d_a_t_e, which can be in
- almost any common format. It can contain month names,
- timezones, `am' and `pm', etc.
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- -_u Print or set the time and date in Universal Coordinated
- Time (also known as Greenwich Mean Time) instead of in
- local (wall clock) time.
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