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NAME

date - print the date

SYNOPSIS

date [ -u ] [ -n ] [ seconds ]

DESCRIPTION

Prints the date to standard output, in the format: 

Wed Jan 12 11:54:06 GMT 2002

The options are


-u
Report Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) rather than local time.
-n
Report the date as the number of seconds since the epoch, 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970.

Current time is obtained by reading /dev/time. The conversion from Greenwich Mean Time to local time depends on the contents of /locale/timezone.

If the optional argument seconds is present, it is used as the time to convert rather than the real time.

FILES

/locale/timezone
Current time zone name and adjustments
/locale
A directory containing time zone tables
/dev/time
microseconds since the epoch, 00:00:00 GMT, 1 January 1970

SOURCE

/appl/cmd/date.b

SEE ALSO

time(1), daytime(2), cons(3)

DATE(1 ) Rev:  Wed Feb 22 04:14:06 GMT 2023