NAME
date - date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [ option ] [ seconds ]
DESCRIPTION
Print the date, in the format
|
Tue Aug 16 17:03:52 CDT 1977 |
The options are
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-u |
Report Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) rather than local time. | ||
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-n |
Report the date as the number of seconds since the epoch, 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970. |
The conversion from Greenwich Mean Time to local time depends on the $timezone environment variable; see ctime(3).
If the optional argument seconds is present, it is used as the time to convert rather than the real time.
SOURCE
/src/cmd/date.c