Explore date command and with options and try to use every option.

The date command displays or sets the system date. It is most commonly used to print the date and time in different formats and calculate future and past date.

Linux date command basic usage

1. To print the current date and time, just type “date” in terminal.

2. This option lets you display the date and time in any format. This would not affect the system’s date and time. It will remain the same.

3. This option lets you display the past days as well as future dates.

4. Date and time of the future

5. Using this command, we could save the date in the file.

6. This Linux date command option is used to display the last modified timestamp of a file.

Format specifiers

• %D: Display the date as mm/dd/yy
• %d : Display the day of the month.
• %a : Display the abbreviated name for weekdays
• %A: Displays full days
• %h : Display abbreviated month name
• %b : Displays abbreviated month name
• %B : Displays full month name
• %m : Displays the month of year.
• %y : Display last two digits of the year
• %Y : Display four-digit year
• %T : Display the time in 24 hour format as HH:MM:SS
• %H : Display the hour.

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