NAME

       date - Print or set the system date and time

SYNOPSIS

       date  [-d|--date]  [-f|--file]  [-I|--iso-8601]  [-R|--rfc-email] [--rfc-3339] [--debug] [-r|--reference]
       [-s|--set] [-u|--universal] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [format]

DESCRIPTION

       Print or set the system date and time

OPTIONS

       -d, --date=STRING
              display time described by STRING, not 'now'

       -f, --file=DATEFILE
              like --date; once for each line of DATEFILE

       -I, --iso-8601=FMT
              output date/time in ISO 8601 format.  FMT='date' for date only (the default), 'hours',  'minutes',
              'seconds',    or    'ns'   for   date   and   time   to   the   indicated   precision.    Example:
              2006-08-14T02:34:56-06:00

              [possible values: date, hours, minutes, seconds, ns]

       -R, --rfc-email
              output date and time in RFC 5322 format.  Example: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:34:56 -0600

       --rfc-3339=FMT
              output date/time in RFC 3339 format.  FMT='date', 'seconds', or 'ns' for  date  and  time  to  the
              indicated precision.  Example: 2006-08-14 02:34:56-06:00

              [possible values: date, seconds, ns]

       --debug
              annotate the parsed date, and warn about questionable usage to stderr

       -r, --reference=FILE
              display the last modification time of FILE

       -s, --set=STRING
              set time described by STRING

       -u, --universal
              print or set Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

       -h, --help
              Print help

       -V, --version
              Print version

       [format]

VERSION

       v(uutils coreutils) 0.1.0

                                          date (uutils coreutils) 0.1.0                                  date(1)