date Command Examples
Set or display the system date. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/date-invocation.html.
- 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(YYYYand.ssare optional):
date {{093023592021.59}}
- Display the current ISO week number:
date +%V