date (displays date and time)

Displays date and time. You can specify a format for the date.

 Format:    date Examples:  date 

Displays date in system default format, such as Thu Jan 13 16:34 PST 2005.

Opt	What It Does	Example
+format	Specify format for date, using codes. See man page for codes.	date +"%m %d" 01 15