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-d, --date=STRING
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display time described by STRING, not ‘now’
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-f, --file=DATEFILE
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like --date once for each line of DATEFILE
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-I TIMESPEC, --iso-8601[=TIMESPEC]
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output date/time in ISO 8601 format.
TIMESPEC=‘date’ for date only,
‘hours’, ‘minutes’, or ‘seconds’ for date and
time to the indicated precision.
--iso-8601 without TIMESPEC defaults to ‘date’.
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-r, --reference=FILE
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display the last modification time of FILE
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-R, --rfc-2822
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output RFC-2822 compliant date string
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-s, --set=STRING
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set time described by STRING
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-u, --utc, --universal
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print or set Coordinated Universal Time
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--help
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display this help and exit
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--version
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output version information and exit
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FORMAT controls the output. The only valid option for the second form
specifies Coordinated Universal Time. Interpreted sequences are:
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%%
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a literal %
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%a
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locale’s abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)
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%A
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locale’s full weekday name, variable length (Sunday..Saturday)
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%b
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locale’s abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
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%B
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locale’s full month name, variable length (January..December)
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%c
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locale’s date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989)
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%C
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century (year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer) [00-99]
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%d
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day of month (01..31)
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%D
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date (mm/dd/yy)
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%e
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day of month, blank padded ( 1..31)
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%F
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same as %Y-%m-%d
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%g
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the 2-digit year corresponding to the %V week number
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%G
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the 4-digit year corresponding to the %V week number
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%h
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same as %b
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%H
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hour (00..23)
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%I
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hour (01..12)
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%j
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day of year (001..366)
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%k
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hour ( 0..23)
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%l
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hour ( 1..12)
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%m
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month (01..12)
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%M
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minute (00..59)
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%n
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a newline
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%N
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nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)
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%p
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locale’s upper case AM or PM indicator (blank in many locales)
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%P
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locale’s lower case am or pm indicator (blank in many locales)
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%r
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time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M)
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%R
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time, 24-hour (hh:mm)
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%s
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seconds since ‘00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC’ (a GNU extension)
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%S
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second (00..60); the 60 is necessary to accommodate a leap second
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%t
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a horizontal tab
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%T
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time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)
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%u
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day of week (1..7); 1 represents Monday
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%U
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week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
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%V
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week number of year with Monday as first day of week (01..53)
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%w
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day of week (0..6); 0 represents Sunday
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%W
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week number of year with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
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%x
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locale’s date representation (mm/dd/yy)
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%X
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locale’s time representation (%H:%M:%S)
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%y
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last two digits of year (00..99)
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%Y
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year (1970...)
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%z
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RFC-2822 style numeric timezone (-0500) (a nonstandard extension)
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%Z
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time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is determinable
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By default, date pads numeric fields with zeroes. GNU date recognizes
the following modifiers between ‘%’ and a numeric directive.
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‘-’ (hyphen) do not pad the field
‘_’ (underscore) pad the field with spaces
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