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DATE(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   DATE(1)

NAME
       date - date and time

SYNOPSIS
       date [ option ] [ seconds ]

DESCRIPTION
       Print the date, in the format

	    Tue Aug 16 17:03:52 CDT 1977

       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.

       The conversion from Greenwich Mean Time to local time depends on the $timezone environment variable; see ctime(3).

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

SOURCE
       /src/cmd/date.c

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