date man page on Inferno

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DATE(1)								       DATE(1)

NAME
       date - print the date

SYNOPSIS
       date [ -u ] [ -n ] [ seconds ]

DESCRIPTION
       Prints the date to standard output, in the format:

	      Wed Jan 12 11:54:06 GMT 2002

       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 GMT, January 1, 1970.

       Current time is obtained by reading  /dev/time.	 The  conversion  from
       Greenwich   Mean	 Time  to  local  time	depends	 on  the  contents  of
       /locale/timezone.

       If the optional argument seconds is present, it is used as the time  to
       convert rather than the real time.

FILES
       /locale/timezone
	      Current time zone name and adjustments

       /locale
	      A directory containing time zone tables

       /dev/time
	      microseconds since the epoch, 00:00:00 GMT, 1 January 1970

SOURCE
       /appl/cmd/date.b

SEE ALSO
       time(1), daytime(2), cons(3)

								       DATE(1)

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