Date Command Manual

                               Date Manual
SYNOPSIS
    date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
    date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]

DESCRIPTION
    Display the current time in the given FORMAT, or set the system date.

    -d, --date=STRING
           display time described by STRING, not `now'

    -f, --file=DATEFILE
           like --date once for each line of DATEFILE

    -r, --reference=FILE
           display the last modification time of FILE

    -R, --rfc-2822
           output date and time in RFC 2822 format

    --rfc-3339=TIMESPEC
           output date and time in RFC 3339 format.  TIMESPEC=`date', `sec-
           onds', or `ns' for date and time to the indicated precision.

    -s, --set=STRING
           set time described by STRING

    -u, --utc, --universal
           print or set Coordinated Universal Time

    --help display this help and exit

    --version
           output version information and exit

    FORMAT controls the output.  The only valid option for the second  form
    specifies Coordinated Universal Time.  Interpreted sequences are:

    %%     a literal %

    %a     locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)

    %A     locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)

    %b     locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)

    %B     locale's full month name (e.g., January)

    %c     locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar  3 23:05:25 2005)

    %C     century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 21)

    %d     day of month (e.g, 01)

    %H     hour (00..23)

    %I     hour (01..12)

    %j     day of year (001..366)

    %k     hour ( 0..23)

    %l     hour ( 1..12)

    %m     month (01..12)

    %M     minute (00..59)

    %n     a newline

    %N     nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)

    %p     locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known

    %P     like %p, but lower case

    %r     locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)

    %R     24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M

    %s     seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC

    %S     second (00..60)

    %t     a tab

    %T     time; same as %H:%M:%S

    %u     day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday

    %U     week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)

    %V     ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53)

    %w     day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday

    %W     week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)

    %x     locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)

    %X     locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)

    %y     last two digits of year (00..99)

    %Y     year

    %z     +hhmm numeric timezone (e.g., -0400)

           - (hyphen) do not pad the field _ (underscore) pad with spaces 0
           (zero) pad with zeros ^ use upper case if possible #  use  oppo-
           site case if possible

    After  any  flags  comes  an optional field width, as a decimal number;
    then an optional modifier, which is either E to use the locale's alter-
    nate  representations  if available, or O to use the locale's alternate
    numeric symbols if available.

AUTHOR
    Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
    Report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This is free software.  You may redistribute copies  of  it  under  the
    terms       of       the      GNU      General      Public      License
    .  There is NO WARRANTY,  to  the
    extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
    The  full documentation for date is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
    the info and date programs are properly installed  at  your  site,  the
    command

           info date

    should give you access to the complete manual.



date 5.97                         March 2007                           DATE