tldr/pages/osx/date.md
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date

Set or display the system date.

  • Display the current date using the default locale's format:

date +"%c"

  • Display the current date in UTC and ISO 8601 format:

date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"

  • Display the current date as a Unix timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch):

date +%s

  • Display a specific date (represented as a Unix timestamp) using the default format:

date -r 1473305798