Which is the STRING format in the date command?

islegmar · #1 (**permalink**) 03-19-2009

Hi

According with the 'date' command documentation

-d, --date=STRING
display time described by STRING, not `now'

My question is, which are the possible values for STRING? I have been looking in the man pages but I didn't find anything?

After some googling I have found it can have special values as 'now', 'yesterday' or 'tomorrow'. If it represents a date, in which format? mm/dd/yyyy HH:MM:SS? yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS? Where is this feature documented?

Thanks a lot

Isi

radoulov · #2 (**permalink**) 03-19-2009

Code:

zsh-4.3.9[radoulov]% date -d '4 FEB 1974' +'%A, %d %B %Y'
Monday, 04 February 1974

For more information:

Code:

man date|less -p'FORMAT '

You can find some examples in the info pages.

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