Date command is used to show the date in the UNIX OS.
Syntax: date
: date “+ format”
Date “+%m/%d/%y”
04/24/16
Date “+%Y%m%d”
20160424
Date ‘+ Date: %d%m%Y%nTime : %H %M %S’
Date: 24/04/2016
Time: 14:47:22
Date ‘+%d-%m-%Y %H-%M-%S’
24-04-2016 15-04-20
To change date and time ,use “-s”
Date -s “04/24/2016 15:05:23”
To display only time part
Date ‘ +%H-%M-%S’
Other Formats
date +%a — Shows Weekday name in short [Mon, Tue ..]
date +%A — Shows Weekday name in full [Monday, Tuesday ..]
date +%b — Shows Month name in short [Jan,Feb..]
date +%B — Shows Month name in full [January, February..]
date +%d — Shows Day of month[01, 02 ..]
date +%D — Shows Current Date; in MM/DD/YY
date +%F — Shows Date; in YYYY-MM-DD
date +%H — Shows hour in [00..23] format
date +%I — Shows hour [01..12] format
date +%j — Shows day of year [001..366]
date +%m — Shows month [01..12]
date +%M — Shows minute [00..59]
date +%S — Shows second [00..60]
date +%T — Shows time in HH:MM:SS
date +%U — Shows week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week [00..53]
date +%Z — alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)