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date - print the date

date

Description

Prints the date to standard output, in the format:

Fri Feb 16 17:03:52 CDT 1997

Current time is obtained from reading /dev/time. The conversion from Greenwich Mean Time to local time depends on the contents of /locale/timezone.

Files

/locale/timezone

/dev/time

See Also

daytime - time conversions in Chapter 15
time - time command execution


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