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