DATE(1)                                                   DATE(1)

     NAME
          date - print the date

     SYNOPSIS
          date [ option ] [ seconds ]

     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 local time, 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.

     FILES
          /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.

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