NAME

date − print the date

SYNOPSIS

­date [ ­option ] [ ­seconds ]

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 local time, January 1, 1970. 

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. 

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. 

Plan 9  —  January 03, 1993