date

Set or display the system date.

• Display the current date using the default locale's format:

date +"%c"

• Display the current date in UTC and ISO 8601 format:

date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"

• Display the current date as a Unix timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch):

date +%s

• Display a specific date (represented as a Unix timestamp) using the default format:

date -d @1473305798

• Convert a specific date to the Unix timestamp format:

date -d "{2018-09-01 00:00}" +%s --utc

• Display the current date using the RFC-3339 format (`YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss TZ`):

date --rfc-3339=s

• Set the current date using the format `MMDDhhmmYYYY.ss` (`YYYY` and `.ss` are optional):

date {093023592021.59}

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