DATE(1)                                                   DATE(1)



     NAME
          date - print and set the date

     SYNOPSIS
          date [ mmddhhmm[yy] ] | +format ]

     DESCRIPTION
          If no argument is given, or if the argument begins with +,
          the current date and time are printed.  Otherwise, the
          current date is set.  The first mm is the month number; dd
          is the day number in the month; hh is the hour number (24
          hour system); the second mm is the minute number; yy is the
          last 2 digits of the year number and is optional.  For
          example:

               date 10080045

          sets the date to Oct 8, 12:45 AM.  The current year is the
          default if no year is mentioned.  The system operates in
          GMT.  date takes care of the conversion to and from local
          standard and daylight time.  Only the superuser may change
          the date.

          If the argument begins with +, the output of date is under
          the control of the user.  All output fields are of fixed
          size (zero padded if necessary).  Each field descriptor is
          preceded by % and will be replaced in the output by its
          corresponding value.  A single % is encoded by %%.  All
          other characters are copied to the output without change.
          The string is always terminated with a new-line character.

          Field Descriptors:
               n    insert a new-line character
               t    insert a tab character
               m    month of year - 01 to 12
               d    day of month - 01 to 31
               y    last 2 digits of year - 00 to 99
               D    date as mm/dd/yy
               H    hour - 00 to 23
               M    minute - 00 to 59
               S    second - 00 to 59
               T    time as HH:MM:SS
               j    day of year - 001 to 366
               w    day of week - Sunday = 0
               a    abbreviated weekday - Sun to Sat
               h    abbreviated month - Jan to Dec
               r    time in AM/PM notation








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     DATE(1)                                                   DATE(1)



     EXAMPLE
               date '+DATE: %m/%d/%y%nTIME: %H:%M:%S'
          would have generated as output:
               DATE: 08/01/76
               TIME: 14:45:05
     DIAGNOSTICS
          No permission         if you are not the super-user and you
                                try to change the date;
          bad conversion        if the date set is syntactically
                                incorrect;
          bad format character  if the field descriptor is not
                                recognizable.
     FILES
          /dev/kmem
     WARNING
          Should you need to change the date while the system is
          running multi-user, use sysadm(1) datetime.
     SEE ALSO
          sysadm(1).
     ORIGIN
          AT&T V.3


































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