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| <tr><td width=20><td><b>DATE(1)</b><td align=right><b>DATE(1)</b> |
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| date – date and time<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>SYNOPSIS </b></font><br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>date</font></tt> [ <i>option</i> ] [ <i>seconds</i> ]<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>DESCRIPTION </b></font><br> |
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| Print the date, in the format |
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| <tt><font size=+1>Tue Aug 16 17:03:52 CDT 1977 |
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| The options are<br> |
| <tt><font size=+1>−u</font></tt> Report Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) rather than local time.<br> |
| <tt><font size=+1>−n</font></tt> Report the date as the number of seconds since the epoch, 00:00:00 |
| GMT, January 1, 1970. |
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| The conversion from Greenwich Mean Time to local time depends |
| on the <tt><font size=+1>$timezone</font></tt> environment variable; see <a href="../man3/ctime.html"><i>ctime</i>(3)</a>. |
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| If the optional argument <i>seconds</i> is present, it is used as the |
| time to convert rather than the real time.<br> |
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| <p><font size=+1><b>SOURCE </b></font><br> |
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| <tt><font size=+1>/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/date.c<br> |
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