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 date - print or set the system date and time
 

SYNOPSIS

 date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
 date [OPTION] [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
 
 -I, --iso-8601[=TIMESPEC] output an ISO-8601 comュ
 pliant date/time string.
 
 TIMESPEC=`date' (or missing) for date only,
 `hours', `minutes', or `seconds' for date and time
 to the indicated precision.
 
 -r, --reference=FILE
 display the last modification time of FILE
 
 -R, --rfc-822
 output RFC-822 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. Interュ
 preted sequences are:
 
 %% a literal %
 
 %a locale's abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)
 
 %A locale's full weekday name, variable length (Sunュ
 day..Saturday)
 
 %b locale's abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
 uary..December)
 
 %c locale's date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST
 1989)
 
 %d day of month (01..31)
 
 %D date (mm/dd/yy)
 
 %e day of month, blank padded ( 1..31)
 
 %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
 
 %p locale's AM or PM
 
 %r time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M)
 
 %s seconds since 00:00:00, Jan 1, 1970 (a GNU extenュ
 sion)
 
 %S second (00..60)
 
 %t a horizontal tab
 
 %T time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)
 
 %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..52)
 
 %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 time representation (%H:%M:%S)
 
 %y last two digits of year (00..99)
 
 %Y year (1970...)
 
 %z RFC-822 style numeric timezone (-0500) (a nonstanュ
 dard 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 `_' (underscore)
 pad the field with spaces
 

REPORTING BUGS

 Report bugs to <bug-sh-utils@gnu.org>.
 

SEE ALSO

 The full documentation for date is maintained as a Texinfo
 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.
 

COPYRIGHT

 Copyright ゥ 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 This is free software; see the source for copying condiュ
 tions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY
 or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.