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author | Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-08-12 22:06:35 +0000 |
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committer | Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-08-12 22:06:35 +0000 |
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diff --git a/date.1 b/date.1 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..28dc1d7c08a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/date.1 @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@ +.TH DATE 1 +.SH NAME +date \- show and set date and time +.SH SYNOPSIS +.if n .nh +.if n .na +.ie \n(.g .ds - \f(CW-\fP +.el ds - \- +.B date +[ +.B \*-u +] [ +.B \*-c +] [ +.B \*-r +.I seconds +] [ +.BI + format +] [ +\fR[\fIyyyy\fR]\fImmddhhmm\fR[\fIyy\fR][\fB.\fIss\fR] +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.ie '\(lq'' .ds lq \&"\" +.el .ds lq \(lq\" +.ie '\(rq'' .ds rq \&"\" +.el .ds rq \(rq\" +.de q +\\$3\*(lq\\$1\*(rq\\$2 +.. +.I Date +without arguments writes the date and time to the standard output in +the form +.ce 1 +Wed Mar 8 14:54:40 EST 1989 +.br +with +.B EST +replaced by the local time zone's abbreviation +(or by the abbreviation for the time zone specified in the +.B TZ +environment variable if set). +The exact output format depends on the locale. +.PP +If a command-line argument starts with a plus sign (\c +.q "\fB+\fP" ), +the rest of the argument is used as a +.I format +that controls what appears in the output. +In the format, when a percent sign (\c +.q "\fB%\fP" +appears, +it and the character after it are not output, +but rather identify part of the date or time +to be output in a particular way +(or identify a special character to output): +.nf +.sp +.if t .in +.5i +.if n .in +2 +.ta \w'%M\0\0'u +\w'Wed Mar 8 14:54:40 EST 1989\0\0'u + Sample output Explanation +%a Wed Abbreviated weekday name* +%A Wednesday Full weekday name* +%b Mar Abbreviated month name* +%B March Full month name* +%c Wed Mar 08 14:54:40 1989 Date and time* +%C 19 Century +%d 08 Day of month (always two digits) +%D 03/08/89 Month/day/year (eight characters) +%e 8 Day of month (leading zero blanked) +%h Mar Abbreviated month name* +%H 14 24-hour-clock hour (two digits) +%I 02 12-hour-clock hour (two digits) +%j 067 Julian day number (three digits) +%k 2 12-hour-clock hour (leading zero blanked) +%l 14 24-hour-clock hour (leading zero blanked) +%m 03 Month number (two digits) +%M 54 Minute (two digits) +%n \\n newline character +%p PM AM/PM designation +%r 02:54:40 PM Hour:minute:second AM/PM designation +%R 14:54 Hour:minute +%S 40 Second (two digits) +%t \\t tab character +%T 14:54:40 Hour:minute:second +%U 10 Sunday-based week number (two digits) +%w 3 Day number (one digit, Sunday is 0) +%W 10 Monday-based week number (two digits) +%x 03/08/89 Date* +%X 14:54:40 Time* +%y 89 Last two digits of year +%Y 1989 Year in full +%z -0500 Numeric time zone +%Z EST Time zone abbreviation +%+ Wed Mar 8 14:54:40 EST 1989 Default output format* +.if t .in -.5i +.if n .in -2 +* The exact output depends on the locale. +.sp +.fi +If a character other than one of those shown above appears after +a percent sign in the format, +that following character is output. +All other characters in the format are copied unchanged to the output; +a newline character is always added at the end of the output. +.PP +In Sunday-based week numbering, +the first Sunday of the year begins week 1; +days preceding it are part of +.q "week 0" . +In Monday-based week numbering, +the first Monday of the year begins week 1. +.PP +To set the date, use a command line argument with one of the following forms: +.nf +.if t .in +.5i +.if n .in +2 +.ta \w'198903081454\0'u +1454 24-hour-clock hours (first two digits) and minutes +081454 Month day (first two digits), hours, and minutes +03081454 Month (two digits, January is 01), month day, hours, minutes +8903081454 Year, month, month day, hours, minutes +0308145489 Month, month day, hours, minutes, year + (on System V-compatible systems) +030814541989 Month, month day, hours, minutes, four-digit year +198903081454 Four-digit year, month, month day, hours, minutes +.if t .in -.5i +.if n .in -2 +.fi +If the century, year, month, or month day is not given, +the current value is used. +Any of the above forms may be followed by a period and two digits that give +the seconds part of the new time; if no seconds are given, zero is assumed. +.PP +These options are available: +.TP +.BR \*-u " or " \*-c +Use Universal Time when setting and showing the date and time. +.TP +.BI "\*-r " seconds +Output the date that corresponds to +.I seconds +past the epoch of 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC, where +.I seconds +should be an integer, either decimal, octal (leading 0), or +hexadecimal (leading 0x), preceded by an optional sign. +.SH FILES +.ta \w'/usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules\0\0'u +/etc/localtime local time zone file +.br +/usr/lib/locale/\f2L\fP/LC_TIME description of time locale \f2L\fP +.br +/usr/share/zoneinfo time zone information directory +.br +/usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules used with POSIX-style TZ's +.br +/usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT for UTC leap seconds +.sp +If +.B /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT +is absent, +UTC leap seconds are loaded from +.BR /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules . +.\" This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of +.\" 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. |