DATE(1) General Commands Manual DATE(1)
NAME
date - print the date
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(2).
If the optional argument seconds is present, it is used as the time to convert rather than the real time.
FILES
/env/timezone
Current timezone name and adjustments.
/adm/timezone
A directory containing timezone tables.
/adm/timezone/local
Default timezone file, copied by init(8) into /env/timezone.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/date.c
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