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date
date - print the date
Synopsis
date
Description
Prints to standard output the date, in the format
Tue Aug 16 17:03:52 CDT 1977
Current time is obtained from reading /dev/time. The conversion from Greenwich Mean Time to local time depends on the contents of /locale/timezone.
Files
/locale/timezone
/dev/time
See Also
daytime and time
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