DATE(1) DATE(1)
NAME
date, clock - date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [ option ] [ seconds ]
clock
DESCRIPTION
Print the date, in the format
Tue Aug 16 17:03:52 CDT 1977
The options are
-u Report Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) rather than local
time.
-n Report the date as the number of seconds since the
epoch, 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970.
-i Report the date as ISO-8601 without time and timezone
suffix.
-t Report the date as ISO-8601 with time and timezone suf-
fix.
-m Report the date as an email compatible (RFC2822) time
stamp.
The conversion from Greenwich Mean Time to local time
depends on the $timezone environment variable; see ctime(2).
If the optional argument seconds is present, it is used as
the time to convert rather than the real time.
Clock draws a simple analog clock in its window.
FILES
/env/timezone Current timezone name and adjustments.
/adm/timezone A directory containing timezone tables.
/adm/timezone/local Default timezone file, copied by
init(8) into /env/timezone.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/date.c
/sys/src/cmd/clock.c
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