date [ -r | -R | -u ] [+FORMAT] [FILE] DATE Usage: date [OPTION] [+FORMAT] [FILE] Print the system date and time or last modification time of FILE. -r Display the last modification time of FILE -R Output date and time in RFC 2822 format. Ecample: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 22:48:37 +0100 -u Print Coordinated Universal Time FORMAT controls the output. Interpreted sequences are: G Era designator Text AD y Year Year 1996; 96 Y Week year Year 2009; 09 M Month in year Month July; Jul; 07 w Week in year Number 27 W Week in month Number 2 D Day in year Number 189 d Day in month Number 10 F Day of week in month Number 2 E Day name in week Text Tuesday; Tue a Am/pm marker Text PM H Hour in day (0-23) Number 0 k Hour in day (1-24) Number 24 K Hour in am/pm (0-11) Number 0 h Hour in am/pm (1-12) Number 12 m Minute in hour Number 30 s Second in minute Number 55 S Millisecond Number 978 z Time zone General time zone Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00 Z Time zone RFC 822 time zone -0800 X Time zone ISO 8601 time zone -08; -0800; -08:00 u Day number of week (1 = Monday, ..., 7 = Sunday) Number 1 FORMAT examples: "yyyy.MM.dd G 'at' HH:mm:ss z" 2001.07.04 AD at 12:08:56 PDT "EEE, MMM d, ''yy" Wed, Jul 4, '01 "h:mm a" 12:08 PM "hh 'o''clock' a, zzzz" 12 o'clock PM, Pacific Daylight Time "K:mm a, z" 0:08 PM, PDT "yyyyy.MMMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa" 02001.July.04 AD 12:08 PM "EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z" Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:08:56 -0700 "yyMMddHHmmssZ" 010704120856-0700 "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ" 2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-0700 "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX" 2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-07:00 "YYYY-'W'ww-u" 2001-W27-3 Examples: date Print system date and time. date -u Print system date and time in UTC format. date +"d.M.y" Print system date in format 'day.month.year'.