SHELL DATE Command Detailed

How to use: Date [-u] [-D DATESTR] [-S datestr] [--UTC] [--universal] [--DATE=DATESTR] [--SET=DATESTR] [--help] [--version] [+f ORMAT] [MMDDHHMM[[CC]YY][.SS]]

Description: Date can be used to display or set the system's Day and time, in terms of display, the user can set the format to be displayed, the format is set to a plus sign followed by a number of tags, where the list of available tags is as follows:

In terms of time:

%: Print out

%%n: Next line

%t: Jump Grid

%H: Hours (00..23)

%I: Hours (01..12)

%k: Hours (0..23)

%l: Hours (1..12)

%M: minutes (00..59)

%p: Show local AM or PM

%r: Direct Display time (12-hour format, HH:MM:SS [ap]m)

%s: The number of seconds from January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC to date%s: seconds (00..61)

%T: Direct Display time (24-hour system)

%x: Equivalent to%h:%m:%s

%Z: Show Time zone

Date aspects:

%a: Day of the Week (Sun. Sat)

%A: Day of the Week (Sunday). Saturday)

%b: Month (Jan). DEC)

%B: Month (January). December)

%c: Display date and time directly

%d: Day (01..31)

%d: Show date directly (MM/DD/YY)

%h: With%b

%j: The first day of the Year (001..366)

%m: Month (01..12)

%u: Week of the Year (00..53) (in Sunday as the first day of the week)

%w: The day of the Week (0..6)

%W: Week of the Year (00..53) (with Monday as the first day of the week)

%x: Show date directly (MM/DD/YY)

%y: Last two digits of the year (00.99)

%Y: Full year (0000..9999)

If you do not start with a plus sign, you want to set the time, and the time format is MMDDHHMM[[CC]YY][.SS],

Where MM is the month,

DD is the day,

HH for hours,

MM for minutes,

CC is the first two digits of the year,

YY is two digits after the year,

SS is the number of seconds

Put the meter:

-D datestr: Displays the time set in the DATESTR (non-system time)

Help: Display Auxiliary message

-S DATESTR: Set the system time to the time set in Datestr

-U: Show current GMT

–version: Show version number

SHELL DATE Command Detailed