The date and time of the server.
$ date Tue Mar 17 18:13:30 CET 2009
Set the date to the date and time shown:
$ date -s "11/20/2008 12:48:00"
List the time and date in the below format:
$ date '+DATE: %m/%d/%y%nTIME:%H:%M:%S' DATE: 02/08/01 TIME:16:44:55
Other format (useful for generating an unique timestamp):
$ date +%y%m%d%H%M%S 090317111734
or
$ date +%y%m%d%H%M%S%N 090317171434411727000
‘date’ Command Examples