dateStel de systeemdatum in of toon deze. Meer informatie: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/date-invocation.html.
date +%c
date {{[-u|--utc]}} +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%Z
date +%s
date {{[-d|--date]}} @{{1473305798}}
date {{[-d|--date]}} "{{2018-09-01 00:00}}" +%s {{[-u|--utc]}}
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss TZ) en specificeer de precisie ervan:date --rfc-3339 {{date|seconds|s}}
MMDDhhmmYYYY.ss (YYYY en .ss zijn optioneel):sudo date {{093023592021.59}}
date +%V