Display Current Date and Time in a Specific Format

Following are different ways of displaying the current date and time in 

various formats: 

$ date 

Thu Jan  1 08:19:23 PST 2009 

 

$ date --date="now" 

Thu Jan  1 08:20:05 PST 2009 

 

$ date --date="today" 

Thu Jan  1 08:20:12 PST 2009 

 

$ date --date='1970-01-01 00:00:01 UTC +5 hours' +%s 

18001 

 

$ date '+Current Date: %m/%d/%y%nCurrent Time:%H:%M:%S' 

Current Date: 01/01/09 

Current Time:08:21:41 

 

$ date +"%d-%m-%Y" 

01-01-2009 

 

$ date +"%d/%m/%Y" 

01/01/2009 

 

$ date +"%A,%B %d %Y" 

Thursday,January 01 2009 

 

Following are the different format options you can pass to the date 

command: 

o    %D   date (mm/dd/yy) 

o    %d   day of month (01..31) 

o    %m   month (01..12) 

o    %y   last two digits of year (00..99) 

o    %a   locale’s abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat) 

o    %A   locale’s full weekday name, variable length 

(Sunday..Saturday) 

o    %b   locale’s abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec) 

o    %B   locale’s full month name, variable length 

(January..December) 

o    %H   hour (00..23) 

o    %I   hour (01..12) 

o    %Y   year (1970…)