'date' - print or set date and time - Video Man Pages

'date' - print or set date and time - Video Man Pages

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The 'date' command prints or sets the date and time.

- Print the current date/time, using the default locale's format:
date +%c

- Print the current date/time in UTC, using default format:
date -u

- Print the current date/time in UTC, using the ISO 8601 format:
date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%Z

- Print the date only using the ISO 8601 format:
date +%F
-or-
date +"%Y-%m-%d"

- Print the date in MM/DD/YY format:
date +%D
-or-
date +"%m/%d/%y"

- Print the time in HH:MM:SS format:
date +%T
-or-
date +"%H:%M:%S"

- Print the current date as a Unix timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch):
date +%s

- Convert a Unix timestamp date (ex: 1773665635) to the default format:
date -d @1773665635

- Convert a given date to the Unix timestamp format:
date -d "2020-03-01 00:00" +%s -u

- Display the current date using the RFC-3339 format (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss TZ) and printing seconds (s):
date --rfc-3339 s
NOTE Instead of 's' for seconds, you could use 'n' for nanoseconds of 'd' for printing date only.

- Set the current date providing a full timestamp in quotes (requires sudo privileges):
date -s "2026-03-16 14:30:00"

- Set the current time while keeping the current date (requires sudo privleges).
date +%T -s "10:15:30"

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