Date

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date is a command to show or set the current system date and time.

Examples:

  • show the date 
date
Fri Apr 17 13:21:55 EDT 2009

date --rfc-3339=date
2012-03-14
  • set the date; in this example to april-20, 2009 
sudo date -s 20090420
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