date(1)

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DATE(1)                     General Commands Manual                    DATE(1)

NAME
       date -- print the date and time

SYNOPSIS
       date [-u] [+%s]

DESCRIPTION
       date prints the time now, as the kernel reads it from the machine's
       real-time clock, in the form

             Sun Sep 27 05:34:12 UTC 2026

       The time is always UTC and always whole seconds: ABSD declares the
       real-time clock to hold UTC, has no time zones, and the clock has no
       finer resolution.  -u is accepted and changes nothing.  +%s prints the
       seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC instead.

       Nothing on ABSD sets or corrects the clock.  Under QEMU it starts from
       the host's UTC time (`-rtc base=utc'), the default.  A physical
       machine's clock may hold local time, or drift; date cannot tell.

       The same clock stamps the lines of the logs under /var/log
       (afterboot(8)).  Files carry no times at all; see filesystem(7).

EXIT STATUS
       0 on success, 1 when the kernel refuses a reading (the clock gave no
       stable, valid value: no time is made up), 2 for any other argument.
       Setting the clock and other formats are not supported.

SEE ALSO
       uptime(1), filesystem(7)

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