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.TH DATE 1 .SH NAME date \- print the date .SH SYNOPSIS .B date [ .B -u ] [ .B -n ] [ .I seconds ] .SH DESCRIPTION Prints the date to standard output, in the format: .IP .EX Wed Jan 12 11:54:06 GMT 2002 .EE .PP The options are .TP .B -u Report Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) rather than local time. .TP .B -n Report the date as the number of seconds since the epoch, 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970. .PP Current time is obtained by reading .BR /dev/time . The conversion from Greenwich Mean Time to local time depends on the contents of .BR /locale/timezone . .PP If the optional argument .I seconds is present, it is used as the time to convert rather than the real time. .SH FILES .TF "/locale/timezone " .TP .B /locale/timezone Current time zone name and adjustments .TP .B /locale A directory containing time zone tables .TP .B /dev/time microseconds since the epoch, 00:00:00 GMT, 1 January 1970 .SH SOURCE .B /appl/cmd/date.b .SH "SEE ALSO" .IR time (1), .IR daytime (2), .IR cons (3)