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by David Stanley

The date and gmdate commands return the value of the current date. The regular date returns information based on the online host server. The gmdate returns information based on the Greenwich Meridian (the center of the timezones).

date ("formatting");
gmdate ("formatting");

There are many variations to use in formatting the outcome of a date. Using the date command without any formatting will result as blank. Here is a list of formatting options :

a	am or pm
A	AM or PM
d	day of the month - 01 to 31
D	day of the week - 3 letters
F	month - long format
g	hour of the day - 1 to 12
G	hour of the day - 0 to 23
h	hour of the day - 01 to 12
H	hour of the day - 00 to 23
i	minutes - 00 to 59
j	day of the month - 1 to 31
l	day of the week - long format
L	leap year test - 0 or 1
m	month - 01 to 12
M	month - 3 letters
n	month - 1 to 12
s	seconds - 00 to 59
S	English suffix - 2 letters
t	number of month days - 28 to 31
T	timezone setting for this machine
U	seconds since epoch
w	day of week - 0 to 6
y	year - 2 digits
Y	year - 4 digits
z	day of the year - 0 to 365
Z	timezone offset in seconds