Following are different ways of displaying the current date and time in various formats.
$ date Thu Jan 1 08:19:23 PST 2009 $ date --date="now" Thu Jan 1 08:20:05 PST 2009 $ date --date="today" Thu Jan 1 08:20:12 PST 2009 $ date --date='1970-01-01 00:00:01 UTC +5 hours' +%s 18001 $ date '+Current Date: %m/%d/%y%nCurrent Time:%H:%M:%S' Current Date: 01/01/09 Current Time:08:21:41 $ date +"%d-%m-%Y" 01-01-2009 $ date +"%d/%m/%Y" 01/01/2009 $ date +"%A,%B %d %Y" Thursday,January 01 2009
Following are the different format options you can pass to the date command:
- %D date (mm/dd/yy)
- %d day of month (01..31)
- %m month (01..12)
- %y last two digits of year (00..99)
- %a locale’s abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)
- %A locale’s full weekday name, variable length (Sunday..Saturday)
- %b locale’s abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
- %B locale’s full month name, variable length (January..December)
- %H hour (00..23)
- %I hour (01..12)
- %Y year (1970…)