coreutils: date invocation
21.1 ‘date’: Print or set system date and time
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Synopses:
date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
date [-u|--utc|--universal] [ MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss] ]
Invoking ‘date’ with no FORMAT argument is equivalent to invoking it
with a default format that depends on the ‘LC_TIME’ locale category. In
the default C locale, this format is ‘'+%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y'’, so
the output looks like ‘Thu Mar 3 13:47:51 PST 2005’.
Normally, ‘date’ uses the time zone rules indicated by the ‘TZ’
environment variable, or the system default rules if ‘TZ’ is not set.
⇒Specifying the Time Zone with ‘TZ’ (libc)TZ Variable.
If given an argument that starts with a ‘+’, ‘date’ prints the
current date and time (or the date and time specified by the ‘--date’
option, see below) in the format defined by that argument, which is
similar to that of the ‘strftime’ function. Except for conversion
specifiers, which start with ‘%’, characters in the format string are
printed unchanged. The conversion specifiers are described below.
An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value
indicates failure.
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