date Command date Print/set the date and time date [-s] [-u] [[yymmdd]hhmm[.ss]] date prints the time of day and the current date, including the time zone. If an argument is given, the system's current time and date is changed, as follows: yy Year (00-99) mm Month (01-12) dd Day (01-31) hh Hour (00-23) mm Minute (00-59) ss Seconds (00-59) The seconds fields are optional. For example, typing date 860512141233 sets the date to May 12, 1986, and the time to 2:12:33 P.M. At least hh and mm must be specified--the rest are optional. The date may be changed only by the superuser. If option -s is specified, date suppresses daylight savings time conversion when setting the time. If option -u is specified, dates are set and printed in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) rather than in local time. The library time conversion routines used by date look for the environmental variable TIMEZONE, which specifies local time zone and daylight saving time information in the format described in ctime. ***** See Also ***** ATclock, commands, ctime(), time, TIMEZONE COHERENT Lexicon Page 1