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DATE 1
NAME
date, clock - date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [ option ] [ seconds ]

clock

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 (2).

If the optional argument seconds is present, it is used as the time to convert rather than the real time.

Clock draws a simple analog clock in its window.

FILES
.TF /adm/timezone/local

/env/timezone Current timezone name and adjustments.

/adm/timezone A directory containing timezone tables.

/adm/timezone/local Default timezone file, copied by init (8) into /env/timezone .

SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/date.c

/sys/src/cmd/clock.c