date

Options

--date=<STRING>, -d <STRING>

date-help-date

--file=<DATEFILE>, -f <DATEFILE>

date-help-file

--iso-8601=<FMT>, -I <FMT>

date-help-iso-8601

--rfc-email, -R

date-help-rfc-email

--rfc-3339=<FMT>

date-help-rfc-3339

--debug

date-help-debug

--reference=<FILE>, -r <FILE>

date-help-reference

--set=<STRING>, -s <STRING>

date-help-set

--universal, -u

date-help-universal

Examples

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

date +%c

Display the current date in UTC, using the ISO 8601 format:

date {{[-u|--utc]}} +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%Z

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

date +%s

Convert a date specified as a Unix timestamp to the default format:

date {{[-d|--date]}} @{{1473305798}}

Convert a given date to the Unix timestamp format:

date {{[-d|--date]}} "{{2018-09-01 00:00}}" +%s {{[-u|--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}}

Display the current ISO week number:

date +%V

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.