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authorPhilip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org>2022-08-16 07:24:21 +0000
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+NAME
+
+ date - show and set date and time
+
+SYNOPSIS
+ date [ -u ] [ -c ] [ -n ] [ -d dsttype ] [ -t minutes-west ]
+ [ -a [+|-]sss.fff ] [ +format ] [ [yyyy]mmddhhmm[yy][.ss] ]
+
+DESCRIPTION
+ Date without arguments writes the date and time to the
+ standard output in the form
+ Wed Mar 8 14:54:40 EST 1989
+ with EST replaced by the local time zone's abbreviation (or
+ by the abbreviation for the time zone specified in the TZ
+ environment variable if set). The exact output format
+ depends on the locale.
+
+ If a command-line argument starts with a plus sign (`+'),
+ the rest of the argument is used as a format that controls
+ what appears in the output. In the format, when a percent
+ sign (`%') 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):
+
+ 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 EST Time zone abbreviation
+ %+ Wed Mar 8 14:54:40 EST 1989 Default output format*
+ * The exact output depends on the locale.
+
+ 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.
+ In Sunday-based week numbering, the first Sunday of the year
+ begins week 1; days preceding it are part of ``week 0.'' In
+ Monday-based week numbering, the first Monday of the year
+ begins week 1.
+
+ To set the date, use a command line argument with one of the
+ following forms:
+ 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 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.
+
+ These options are available:
+
+ -u or -c
+ Use UTC when setting and showing the date and time.
+
+ -n Do not notify other networked systems of the time
+ change.
+
+ -d dsttype
+ Set the kernel-stored Daylight Saving Time type to the
+ given value. (The kernel-stored DST type is used
+ mostly by ``old'' binaries.)
+
+ -t minutes-west
+ Set the kernel-stored ``minutes west of UTC'' value to
+ the one given on the command line. (The kernel-stored
+ DST type is used mostly by ``old'' binaries.)
+
+ -a adjustment
+ Change the time forward (or backward) by the number of
+ seconds (and fractions thereof) specified in the
+ adjustment argument. Either the seconds part or the
+ fractions part of the argument (but not both) may be
+ omitted. On BSD-based systems, the adjustment is made
+ by changing the rate at which time advances; on System-
+ V-based systems, the adjustment is made by changing the
+ time.
+
+FILES
+ /usr/lib/locale/L/LC_TIME description of time
+ locale L
+ /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo time zone information
+ directory
+ /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo/localtime local time zone file
+ /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo/posixrules used with POSIX-style
+ TZ's
+ /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo/GMT for UTC leap seconds
+
+ If /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo/GMT is absent, UTC leap seconds
+ are loaded from /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo/posixrules.