Date
From Linuxintro
date is a command to show or set the current system date and time.
Examples:
- show the date
date Fri Apr 17 13:21:55 EDT 2009
- in a format sensible for sorting:
date --rfc-3339=date 2014-08-05 date --rfc-3339=seconds 2014-08-05 10:06:54+02:00 date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S 2016-01-19_18-30-26
- set the date; in this example to april-20, 2009
sudo date -s 20090420
- set the date and time
sudo date -s "2012-10-19 10:20:59"
