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| | + | === Show date === |
| | $ date | | $ date |
| | Will output the system date-time<br /> | | Will output the system date-time<br /> |
| | | | |
| − | === To set new date == | + | === To set new date === |
| | $ date -s "2 OCT 2006 18:00:00" | | $ date -s "2 OCT 2006 18:00:00" |
| | or: | | or: |
| | $ date +%Y%m%d -s "20081128" | | $ date +%Y%m%d -s "20081128" |
| | + | |
| | + | === Set part of the date === |
| | + | date -s "2014-12-25 $(date +%H:%M:%S)" |
| | | | |
| | === To set new time === | | === To set new time === |
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| | === To use AM or PM === | | === To use AM or PM === |
| | $ date +%T%p -s "6:10:30AM" | | $ date +%T%p -s "6:10:30AM" |
| | + | |
| | + | === Isoformat === |
| | + | date -Ins # With miliseconds |
| | + | date +"%FT%T%:z" # Without miliseconds |
| | + | |
| | + | === Format strings === |
| | + | {| class="wikitable" |
| | + | |- |
| | + | ! %FORMAT String !! Description |
| | + | |- |
| | + | | %% || 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) |
| | + | |- |
| | + | | %D || date; same as %m/%d/%y |
| | + | |- |
| | + | | %e || day of month, space padded; same as %_d |
| | + | |- |
| | + | | %F || full date; same as %Y-%m-%d |
| | + | |- |
| | + | | %g || last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G) |
| | + | |- |
| | + | | %G || year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V |
| | + | |- |
| | + | | %h || same as %b |
| | + | |- |
| | + | | %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) |
| | + | |- |
| | + | | %:z || +hh:mm numeric timezone (e.g., -04:00) |
| | + | |- |
| | + | | %::z || +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00) |
| | + | |- |
| | + | | %:::z || numeric time zone with : to necessary precision (e.g., -04, +05:30) |
| | + | |- |
| | + | | %Z || alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT) |
| | + | |} |