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= See also =
 
= See also =
* [http://man-wiki.net/index.php/1:date dAte's man page]
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* [http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?date date's man page]
* [[ntP]]
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[[Category:Command]]

Revision as of 09:11, 22 April 2014

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
date --rfc-3339=date
2012-03-14
  • 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"

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