Date Command :Linux

The date command gives you the current date and time of your Linux system. But it can do much more than that.

The date command in Linux is the simplest way to display the current time and date in Linux.

You can do a couple more things using the date command like identifying a week or day from a date, calculating the time from epoch to a specified time, and a few more variations.

In this article, we take a look at the date command in detail and what you can do with it using some examples.

[root@localhost~]#man date

[root@localhost~]#date +%T