| DATE(1) | DATE(1)
| 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 `−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 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
| `/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/date.c`